Freedom From Violence and Lies : Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky Frontmatter Contents Preface I. PUSHKIN AND ROMANTICISM 1. Two Pushkin Studies 2. Fortunes of an Infanticide 3. Pushkin Re Englished 4. A Mystical Musicologist 5. Küchelbeckers Trilogy Izhorsky As an Example of the Romantic Revival of the Medieval Mystery Play 6. Misanthropy and Sadism in Lermontovs Plays II. MODERNISM ITS PAST ITS LEGACY 7. Annenskys Materiality 8. Zinaida Gippius and Russian Poetry 9. Died and Survived 10. Symphonic Structure in Andrei Belys Pervoe svidanie 11. The Death and Resurrection of Mikhail Kuzmin 12. Nikolai Gumilyov and Théophile Gautier 13. An Emerging Reputation Comparable to Pushkins 14. Tsvetaeva in English: A Review Article 15. A New Edition of the Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva 16. New Information about the Émigré Period of Marina Tsvetaeva (Based on Material from Her Correspondence with Anna Tesková) 17. Pasternak Pushkin and the Ocean in Marina Tsvetaevas From the Sea 18. Traveling to Geneva... : On a Less than Successful Trip by Marina Tsvetaeva 19. Isadora Had a Taste for Russian Love 20. Surrealism in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry: Churilin Zabolotsky Poplavsky 21. Evtushenko and the Underground Poets III. POETRY ABROAD 22. In Search of Poplavsky: A Collage 23. Morshen or a Canoe to Eternity 24. Morshen after Ekho i zerkalo 25. A Hidden Masterpiece: Valery Pereleshins Ariel 26. Russian Culture in Manchuria and the Memoirs of Valery Pereleshin IV. ON CHAIKOVSKY 27. A Review of Tchaikovsky: A Self Portrait by Alexandra Orlova 28. Should We Retire Chaikovsky 29. Man or Myth The Retrieval of the True Chaikovsky 30. Chaikovsky and the Pantomime of Derision V. ON STRAVINSKY 31. The Composers Workshop 32. The Repatriation of Igor Stravinsky 33. Igor Stravinsky and Russian Preliterate Theater VI. ON SHOSTAKOVICH 34. Our Destinies Are Bad 35. Taking Notes for Testimony VII. SONG AND DANCE 36. The Uses of Chaliapin 37. Russian Comic Opera in the Age of Catherine the Great 38. Contralto: Rossini Gautier and Gumilyov 39. A Cultural Educator of Genius 40. Opera and Drama in Ravel Index of Names Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty one essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924 2009) a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature sexual politics and music who taught in the University of California Berkeleys Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1964 to 1991. Among Karlinskys full length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva and Nikolai Gogol Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin; editions of Anton Chekhovs letters; writings by Russian émigrés; and correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson. Karlinsky also wrote frequently for professional journals and mainstream publications like the New York Times Book Review and the Nation. The present volume is the first collection of such shorter writings spanning more than three decades. It includes twenty seven essays on literary topics and fourteen on music seven of which have been newly translated from the Russian originals