Freedom From Violence and Lies: Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky - Ars Rossica

Simon Karlinsky (1924-2009) was a prolific, provocative, and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature, of sexual politics, and of music. Among his groundbreaking publications were two studies of the life and works of Marina Tsvetaeva (The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol, and Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin), and editions of the letters of Anton Chekhov, as well as the letters of Russian emigre writers and the correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.