Finding Aid to the Simon Karlinsky papers BANC MSS 2010/177
Marjorie Bryer
The Bancroft Library
2021
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Simon Karlinsky papers
Creator:
Karlinsky, Simon
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2010/177
Physical Description:
17.8 Linear Feet
(12 cartons, 1 box, 2 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1924-2007
Abstract: The Simon Karlinsky papers document his career as a scholar and professor of Russian literature at the University of California,
Berkeley, and offer insight into his life as a gay man. Major topics include émigré literature, gay culture, history and iterature
in Russia, Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, Valery Perleshin, Russian theater and drama, Gennady Trifonov,
and Marina Tsvetaeva. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative materials from the
university; writings; course materials; musical scores Karlinsky composed; and audiotapes.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Materials are in English, Russian, French, German, Polish, and Italian.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Accruals
No future additions are expected.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Simon Karlinsky papers were given to The Bancroft Library in 2010 by Peter Carleton, executor of the estate of Simon Karlinsky.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternative forms of this collection.
Biography
Simon Karlinsky was a distinguished scholar of Russian literature and member of the University of California, Berkeley Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1964-1991. Born in 1924 in the Russian émigré conclave of Harbin, Manchuria, Karlinsky
and his family immigrated to the United States in 1938, settling in Los Angeles. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944, then
worked as an interpreter in Germany, and studied music in Paris and Berlin. After returning to the States, Karlinsky earned
his BA in Slavic Languages and literature at UC Berkeley, his Master's at Harvard, and his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1964. Karlinsky
was openly gay; when he died in 2009, he was survived by his husband, humanistic counselor Peter Carleton.
Karlinsky taught and wrote about a wide variety of subjects. His scholarship included articles and books on émigré literature
and Russian writers in exile in the West; the twentieth-century poet Marina Tsvetaeva; the history of the Russian theater
and drama; Nikolai Gogol; gay history, literature, and homophobia in Russia; Anton Chekhov;, and the correspondence between
Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to audio-visual materials may be restricted due to technical limitations.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Simon Karlinsky papers, BANC MSS 2010/177, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Marjorie Bryer in 2021. Thanks to Liladhar Pendse, Ph.D., UC Berkeley Librarian for East European and Eurasian
Studies, and for Latin American Studies, and Professor Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University, for their help translating some names
and titles. Any errors in this finding aid are mine alone.
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Scope and Content Note
The Simon Karlinsky papers document his career as a scholar and professor of Russian literature at the University of California,
Berkeley and offer insight into his life as a gay man. Major topics include Anton Chekhov; Sergei Diaghilev; émigré literature;
gay culture, history and iterature in Russia; Nikolai Gogol; Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson; Valery Perleshin; Russian
theater and drama; Pyotr Tchaikovsky; Gennady Trifonov; and Marina Tsvetaeva.
The collection has been divided into eight series: Correspondence; Administrative Materials; Notebooks and Personalia; Writings;
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters; Course Materials; Musical Scores Composed by Karlinsky; and Audiovisual Materials.
Publication Rights
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Karlinsky, Simon -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures -- Faculty
Russian literature--History and criticism.
Russian literature -- Study and teaching -- California -- Berkeley
Faculty papers
Gays' writings -- History and criticism
Lesbians' writings -- History and criticism
Series 1.
Correspondence
1949-2007
Physical Description: Cartons 1-2; Carton 3, folders 1-34
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence is in English, Russian, German, French, and Polish. Correspondents include other gay authors, artists, and
composers. Letters were arranged alphabetically by name; first names were used when last names were unknown. When correspondents
could not be unidentified, letters were arranged chronologically, and sorted by language. Letters in English, German, and
French were grouped together, and letters in Russian and Polish were combined. Karlinsky also kept files of correspondence
about particular subjects. These were arranged alphabetically by topic. These files may contain writings, conference materials,
and administrative records. Correspondents may appear in both the alphabetical and chronological files, and correspondence
can be found in other series.
carton 1, folder 2
Allard, Alfreda and Andy
1973-1988
carton 1, folder 3
Alyoshin, Samuil
1968-1991
carton 1, folder 4
Appel, Alfred, Jr.
1967-1977
carton 1, folder 5
Armstrong, Bob (Robert)
1959-1981
carton 1, folder 8
Bebb, Blanche, includes Bird and Beckett Photographs
2003-2005
carton 1, folder 9-10
Berberova, Nina
1967-1984
carton 1, folder 11
Bethea, David M.
1979-1991
carton 1, folder 12
Blakeley, Allison
1977-1987
carton 1, folder 13
Blattel & Klein
1964-1965
carton 1, folder 14
Blum, David and Sara
1977-1982
carton 1, folder 15
Bob [Miscellaneous Correspondents Named Bob]
1966-2000
carton 1, folder 19
Brandt, Hans
approximately 1988-1989
carton 1, folder 21
Brilliant, Teo Savory
1967-1970
carton 1, folder 22
Brodsky, Patricia Pollock (Pat)
1972-1981
carton 1, folder 23
Brown, Clarence (CB)
1965-1968
carton 1, folder 25
Brumfield, William (Bill)
1971-1987
carton 1, folder 27
Cady, Joe/Joe Mansen
1966-1977
Scope and Content Note
All letters are signed "Joe"; it appears that they are either from Joseph Cady or Joe Mansen [Manson?]
carton 1, folder 28
Carleton, Peter
1975-2000
carton 1, folder 31
Core, Philip, including "Staying Near"
1971-1972
carton 1, folder 32
Corn, Alfred (A.) and J.D. McClatchy (Sandy)
1973-1995
carton 1, folder 34
Crompton, Louis (Lou)
1978-1985
carton 1, folder 36
Czerwinski, E.J. (Ed)
1968-1969
carton 1, folder 37
"C"
approximately 1967-1999
carton 1, folder 38
Denneny, Michael/St. Martin's Press (Harper & Row/Winthrop Knowlton)
1980-1995
carton 1, folder 39
Derbyshire, William (Bill)
approximately 1976-1980
carton 1, folder 43
Ewing, Jon
approximately 1980
carton 1, folder 47
Feiler, Lily, includes paper on Tsvetaeva
1984-1986
carton 1, folder 48
Feuer, Kathryn B.
1966-1981
carton 1, folder 50
Flier, Michael S.
1984-2004
carton 1, folder 51
Folejewski, Zbigniew
approximately 1973
carton 1, folder 53
Golden, John H. (JHG)
1962-1963
carton 1, folder 56
Graves, Morris/Roy Leeper
1968-1976
carton 1, folder 57
Gustavson, Richard (Dick)
1967-1972
carton 1, folder 59
Haber, Edythe C.
1972-1985
carton 1, folder 60
Heldt, Barbara/Barbara Monter
1977-1986
carton 1, folder 64
Ivask, George/Yuri Ivask
1968-1988
carton 1, folder 66
J. (First Initial)
1979, undated
carton 1, folder 68
Jackson, Robert Louis
1970-1979
carton 1, folder 71
Kans, Eva Kagen
1967-1987
carton 1, folder 72
Kasack, Wolfgang
1975-1989
carton 1, folder 74
Kissel, Wolfgang
1982-1984
carton 1, folder 75
Kopper, John M.
1969-1993
carton 1, folder 77
Kusubova, Tatiana (Tanya)
1974-1975
carton 1, folder 80
Lee, Nicholas C.
1967-1977
carton 1, folder 81
Lehrman, Edgar H.
1965-1985
carton 1, folder 82
Letters to the Editor/Genrikh Gorchakov
approximately 1993
carton 1, folder 83
Locke, Richard/Second Thoughts on August 1914
1973-1976
carton 1, folder 86
Malmstead, John
approximately 1969-1977
carton 1, folder 87-89
Markov, Vladimir
1958-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Sincere Confessions, Reflections of a Russian Woman Living (and Waiting for Her Days) Outside Her Fatherland"
carton 2, folder 1
Maroth, Frederick - Diaghilev Era
1983-1984
carton 2, folder 6
Nabokov, Vladimir and Vera
1963-1975
carton 2, folder 7
National Translation Center
1967-1969
carton 2, folder 10
Ormiston, Gary
1962-[1973]
carton 2, folder 12
Parker, Will
approximately 1976-1981
carton 2, folder 13
Princeton University Press
1970-1983
carton 2, folder 14
Proffer, Carl/Ardis
1971-1976
carton 2, folder 15
"P"
approximately 1969-2000
carton 2, folder 16
Rancour-Laferriere, David
1980-1986
carton 2, folder 17
Rannit, Aleksis
1969-1979
carton 2, folder 18
Richard (Miscellaneous Correspondents Named Richard)
1974-1986
carton 2, folder 19
Robinson, Harlow
approximately 1978-1987
carton 2, folder 20
Ron
approximately 1969-1970
carton 2, folder 22
Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer
1969-1983
carton 2, folder 25
Saunders, David
1981-1993
carton 2, folder 27
Senelick, Laurence
1966-1984
carton 2, folder 28
Setchkarev, Vsevolod (Setchkareff)
1962-1990
carton 2, folder 30
Siskoe, John – Chekhov Project, includes Project Materials
1988-1990
carton 2, folder 31-32
Slavic and East European Journal; Slavic Review
1976-1978; 1976-1993
carton 2, folder 39
Tulonen, Timo Kainen, including Affidavit
approximately 1970-1978
carton 2, folder 42
University of California Press
1966-1983
carton 2, folder 43-44
Van Norman Baer, Nancy, includes Materials re: Symposium: Theatre in Revolution
1985-1991
carton 2, folder 45
Varan, Susie (Niece)
approximately 1965-1977
carton 2, folder 48
[Walmsley], Everett
1974, undated
carton 2, folder 49
Webb, Bernard (Bernie)
1981-1983
carton 2, folder 50
White, Craig (CWW)
1969-1974
carton 2, folder 51
White, Edmund
approximately 1973-1993
carton 2, folder 52
Whitfield, Francis J. (Frank)
1960-1996
carton 2, folder 53
Whitmore, George
approximately 1974-1980
carton 2, folder 57
Yancy, John
approximately 1980
carton 2, folder 58
Yanovsky, B. (V.S.)
1977-1985
carton 2, folder 60
Zientara, Jerry
1983-1989
carton 2, folder 63-65
Unidentified Correspondents - Correspondence in English, French, and German
approximately 1957-2003
carton 2, folder 66-71
Unidentified Correspondents - Correspondence in Russian
approximately 1955-2001
Scope and Content Note
A small amount of the correspondence is in Polish.
carton 3, folder 1
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Exchange Program
1968
carton 3, folder 2
Berlin Trip, includes Correspondence with Peter Carleton
1988
carton 3, folder 3-4
"A Difficult Soul: Zinaida Gippus/Vladimir Zlobin" and "Valery Bryusov: Diaries and Memoirs," includes University of California
Press Correspondence, Reviews, and Contracts
1975-1984
carton 3, folder 6
Gay Sunshine article, "Russia's Gay literature and History"
1976-1990
carton 3, folder 7-10
Gays and Lesbians
1974-1988
carton 3, folder 11
Modern Language Association
1968-1971
carton 3, folder 12
Essay on Nikolai Morshen/Correspondence with Nikolai Marchenko
1974-1980
carton 3, folder 15-19
Nabokov-Wilson Book
Scope and Content Note
Includes copies of letters that date back to 1942.
carton 3, folder 20
New Chekhov Project
1983-1998
carton 3, folder 21
Philological Association of the Pacific Coast
1963-1965
carton 3, folder 24
"Russian Drama"
1983-1985
carton 3, folder 25
Valentina Tivotorsky
approximately 1949-1958
carton 3, folder 26-33
Marina Tsvetaeva and Tsvetaea Book
1960-1989
carton 3, folder 34
Ukranian Studies
1974-1975
Series 2.
Administrative Materials
1942-1992
Physical Description: Carton 3, folders 35-37; Carton 4, folders 1-6
Scope and Content Note
Includes administrative materials, bio-bibliographies, correspondence, and personnel materials related to the Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures and the University of California. There is some overlap with individuals who have their own
files and/or letters in the Correspondence Series.
carton 3, folder 35-37
Biographical, includes Personal Notes, Sabbaticals
1942-1998
carton 4, folder 1
Bio-Bibliographies
1979-1990
carton 4, folder 2-5
Departmental (Slavic Languages and Literature) and University-Wide Correspondence and Personnel Materials
1942, 1960-1988
carton 4, folder 6
Faculty Research Grants
approximately 1983-1992
Series 3.
Notebooks and Personalia
approximately 1961-1993
Physical Description: Carton 4, folders 7-32; Carton 5, folders 1-6
Arrangement
Original order was maintained.
Scope and Content Note
Approximately 32 notebooks that date back at least to Karlinsky's student days at Berkeley and Harvard. Most are in languages
besides English (primarily Russian). They contain a mix of personal, professional and school notes; addresses and appointments;
and creative writing and illustrations. There are also several travel diaries and a folder with a couple of photographs and
personal papers re: Karlinsky's family in Israel.
carton 4, folder 7-8
Off-Campus Lectures -- Chekhov and Nabokov/Lecture Notes -- Russian Literature
carton 4, folder 10
Notes, including "On Homosexuality"
carton 4, folder 11
Greece-Turkey Travel Book
1993
carton 4, folder 12-13, 16, 20-24
Student Notebooks -- Harvard and University of California, Berkeley
carton 4, folder 14-15, 17-18
Lecture Notes, including Slavic 108
1993, undated
carton 4, folder 28
Illustrations and Writings
carton 5, folder 1
Includes Diario Nabokoviana
[1969]
carton 5, folder 2-5
Lecture or Student Notes in Russian
carton 5, folder 6
Personalia/Photographs
approximately 1961-1976
Series 4.
Writings
1943-2005
Physical Description: Carton 5, folder 7-29; Cartons 6-9; Carton 10, folders 1-28
Arrangement
Original order was maintained.
Scope and Content Note
Includes articles; bibliographies; book reviews; conference presentations; correspondence; notes; notebooks; publications;
and subject file materials. There is also correspondence related to publications and requests for schoarly articles and reviews
from Karlinsky. There is overlap with the Correspondence Series, but most of the letters here are professional ones from colleagues
and publishers. Original folder titles were retained.
carton 5, folder 7-9
Bibliographies, including Post-Dissertation [illegible]
approximately 1963-1990
carton 5, folder 10-16
Autobiography
approximately 1995
carton 5, folder 17-72
Published Articles, Lectures, Drafts, Student Papers, Symposium Materials, and Fragments
approximately 1943-2002
Arrangement
In alphabetical order (roughly).
Scope and Content Note
In English, French, and German; contains some correspondence. Subjects and genres include Alexander Blok; Andre Platonov;
Baratynsky; beginnings of the novel in Russia; music and ballet; Pushkin and Chateaubriand; special issue of California Slavic
Studies; Chekhov; Russian romantic fiction; autobiographical writings and fiction; Sergei Diaghilev; Mikhail Kuzmin; Dostoyevsky;
Erik Satie; gay Russian literature and culture, gay literary criticism, gay and lesbian Russian poets; Tiutchev and Tolstoy;
Nabokov; Nikolaj Gumilev and Théophile Gautier; Reply to John Lauritsen and David Thorstad; Stravinsky; Gennady Trifonov;
Paul Tallement; Tchaikovsky; Lermontov and Gogol; "Voyage in a Truck"; Middlebury and other public lectures; newspaper articles;
poetry; and photocopied articles, letters, poems, and quotes (in Russian).
box 1, folder 1
Typescript in Russian; and Russian Fragments
carton 6, folder 1-2
Mostly Requests for Karlinsky to Write Book Reviews
1967-1974
carton 6, folder 3-6
Reviews by Karlinsky and Reviews of His Books
approximately 1966-1987
Scope and Content Note
In English and Russian
carton 6, folder 7-11
Conferences, including Correspondence, Drafts, Papers
approximately 1979-1992
carton 6, folder 12-13
Chekhov, includes Correspondence, Writings, Conference and Subject File Material
approximately 1978-1998
carton 6, folder 14
Nabokov – Nice, France Conference Papers/Talks Given
approximately 1991-1992
carton 6, folder 15-16
Poplavskii, includes Correspondence
approximately 1968-1974
carton 6, folder 17
Columbia Encyclopedia Contributions
1973-1990
carton 6, folder 18-29
Publications (1979)-Publications (1985)
1972-1985
Scope and Content Note
Folders marked "Publications" contain materials related to writings that were published (roughly) in the years designated
on each folder. This includes correspondence from publishers and colleagues, drafts, and publications. There is overlap with
correspondents in Series 1 and with other publication files.
Arrangement
Original order was maintained.
carton 7, folder 1-12
Publications (1986)-Publications (1991)
1983-1991
carton 7, folder 13-15
Publications Correspondence (1992-1993)
1991-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes Administrative Materials, Drafts, Publications
carton 7, folder 16-28
Published Articles
approximately 1950-1974
Scope and Content Note
Karlinsky organized these chronologically. Examples of his folder titles include "Opublikovannyye Stat'i do kontsa 1967 ogo
goda" ("The published articles until the end of year 1967"), and "Opublikovannyye Stat'i nachalo 1968 do kontsa 1969" ("The
published articles from the beginning of year 1968 until the end of year 1969"). Files include correspondence, typescripts,
and published articles, and materials are in Russian, English, French, and German.
carton 8, folder 1-5
Published Articles
1975-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, typescripts and published articles in Russian and English.
carton 8, folder 6-11
Publications Correspondence
1959-1997
carton 8, folder 12-14
"Requested Opinions"
approximately 1983-1996
carton 8, folder 13-20
Chekhov
1970-1996
Scope and Content Note
Orignal folder titles were retained. Files include the Chekhov Book, correspondence and reviews; the Oxford Chekhov (The Transmutation
of a Master); selected reviews for Princeton University Press; book reviews; the Chekhov Project: Michael Berman; and Chekhov
Paperback.
carton 8, folder 21
Diaghilev, Sergei -- Public & Private, Christopher Street; New York Times Book Review
1979-1980
carton 8, folder 22-26
Drama Book (Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin)
1970-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes reactions, correspondence, reviews, and a chapter.
carton 8, folder 27-30
Gogol Book (The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol), includes Rough Draft Manuscript, Correspondence
approximately 1975-1986
carton 9, folder 1-3
The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol
1974-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence,typescripts, responses, and reviews.
carton 9, folder 4
I.L. Questionnaire – in Russian
carton 9, folder 5
Kuzmin, Gumilev and Tsvetayeva as Neo-Romantic Playwrights (Russian Theatre in the Age of Modernism)
1987-1989
carton 9, folder 6-8
Nabokov -- Articles, Reviews, French Translations
1967-1995
Scope and Content Note
In English, French, and Russian. Folder 6 contains several different folders of articles.
box 1, folder 2-6
Pereleŝin, Valerij (Valery Perleshin/V.F. Salatko-Petryshche)
approximately 1983-2005
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, book reviews, writings, subject file material
carton 9, folder 9
Poplavsky, Boris/Poplavsky Trots/Yuri Odarchenko/Morshen/Georgii Ivanov
carton 9, folder 10
Pushkin Re-Englished and Pushkin Bio
approximately 1982
carton 9, folder 11
The Operatic Drama of Ravel [in Russian]
carton 9, folder 12
Stravinsky Conference
1982-1987
carton 9, folder 13-17
Tchaikovsky
1981-1996
Scope and Content Note
Includes Should We Retire Tchaikovsky?/Tchaikovsky Controversy; correspondence; article by Malcolm Brown; subject file material;
typescripts; reviews; publications by Karlinsky and others.
box 1, folder 7
Notes, including Gay Literary Criticism from a Personal Perspective
carton 9, folder 18-21
Russia's Gay Literature and Culture
approximately 1983-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes articles for the Advocate; correspondence and drafts re: Russia's Gay Literature and Culture (in Hidden from History:Reclaiming
the Gay and Lesbian Past); and notes and articles on various LGBT topics, such as AIDS, Homophobia, and Out Write and Gay
Studies conferences.
carton 9, folder 22-25
Russia's Gay Poets, Russia's Gay History, Russia's Gay Liberation
approximately 1974-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, drafts, subject file material
carton 9, folder 26-32
Trifonov, Gennady
approximately 1977-1987
Scope and Content Note
Includes Russia's Gay Poets and L' Affaire G. Trifonov; The Case of Gennady Trifonov; and files labeled "More Trifonov." All
files contain correspondence, drafts, publications, and subject file materials.
carton 9, folder 33-37
Tri-Quarterly Issue Project and Tri-Quarterly Project II, [The Bitter Air of Exile]
1971-1992
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Alfred Appel, Jr., Paul Schmidt, and many others.
carton 10, folder 1-3
The Bitter Air of Exile (TQ Paperback)/Tri-Quarterly Project II, Recent Material
1973-1979
Scope and Content Note
Primarily correspondence and reviews.
carton 10, folder 4-28
Tsvetaeva, Marina (Cvetaeva)
1963-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes material re: Karlinksy's biography, "Marina Tsvetaeva: the woman, her world, and her poetry"; and other writings
about, and conferences on, Tsvetaeva. There is correspondence; acceptance letters; royalties; reviews (including ones from
foreign-language newspapers); a copy of the typescript; a notebook; French translations; articles in English and Russian;
subject file materials; correspondence re: Tsvetaeva and Xenia [Stravinskaya]; and folders labeled "New Tsvetaeva Book."
Series 5.
The Nabakov-Wilson Letters
approximately 1950-2000
Physical Description: Carton 10, folders 29-31; Carton 11, folders 1-26
Scope and Content Note
Materials related to Karlinsky's 1979 book, "The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund
Wilson, 1940-1971." Original folder titles and order were maintained.
carton 11, folder 2-4
Revise Queries; and Instructions with Queries; New Letters
carton 11, folder 5
Excerpts, New York Times
1979
carton 11, folder 6
Letters, Newly Typed, with Notes
approximately 1950-1964
carton 11, folder 8
Notes, Footnotes, Correspondence with Vera Nabokov and re: the Book
1978-2000
carton 11, folder 9
New Printout (for Germany)
1993
carton 11, folder 10-13
Manuscript/Annotated Typescript
carton 11, folder 14-16
Reviews, including French Edition; Correspondence, including Letters from Vera Nabokov
1979-1988
carton 11, folder 17
Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Russian Literature
1981-1987
carton 11, folder 18
Correspondence re: Konstantin Nabokov
1981-1987
carton 11, folder 19-20
Nabokov-Related Correspondence with Brian Boyd/Correspondence re: Boyd's Nabokov Book
1979-1991
carton 11, folder 21
Correspondence, including Dimitri Nabokov
1980-1989
carton 11, folder 22-26
Initial Response – Financial Records and Correspondence
approximately 1979-1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from reviewers (such as Philip Howerton, John Updike), and from Vera and Dmitri Nabokov
Series 6.
Course Materials
approximately 1965-1988
Physical Description: Carton 11, folders 27-35; Carton 12, folders 1-20; and Box 1, folders 8-10
Arrangement
Carton 11 includes materials re: Romanticism to Realism and Chekhov; Carton 12 includes materials re: Gogol; Tolstoy; Russian
Drama; 18th, 19th, and 20th Century Poetry; Russian Romanticism; Chekhov Seminars; Verbalist and Surrealist Trends; and unidentified
course and lecture notes; Box 1 includes materials re: Chekhov, Gogol, and Pushkin.
Scope and Content Note
Lectures, notes, and syllabi. Includes the following courses: Slavic 45/46 (Romaticism to Realism); Slavic 133/134 (Chekhov);
Slavic 134 C (Chekhov); Slavic 134G (Gogol); Slavic 134/181 (Pushkin); Slavic 134B (Tolstoy); Slavic 135 (Russian Drama);
Slavic 187/188 (Russian Poetry, 18th-20th Century); Slavic 231/242 (18th C.? – in Russian); Slavic 245A (Russian Romanticism);
Slavic 280 (Chekhov Seminar); Slavic 287 (Verbalist and Surrealist Trends); and Slavic 290 (Pushkin).
oversize_box 1-2
Series 7
Musical Scores Composed by Karlinsky
approximately 1952-1955, 1984
Scope and Content Note
Also includes a few notebooks with compositions, and "something for Simon to try at his harpsichord," from Joe K[illegible].
At least one piece, Souvenir, was performed publicly, and the collection includes programs from those performances.
Series 8.
Audiovisual Materials
1967-1998
Physical Description: Carton 12
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to audio-visual materials may be restricted due to technical limitations.
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following audiocassette tapes:
Proms 98' Interval: Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, BBC Radio 3, Simon Karlinsky, Henry Zajaczkowski, and Richard Taruskin, contributors,
04/09/98
Russian: Interview w/ Prof. S. Karlinski [sic], for L. Foster/USSR Div.
Gay Spirit Dub, November 6, 1997
Includes the following open reel audiotapes:
Interview w/ Prof. Karlinsky, San Francisco, Voice of America/USSR Division/Iraida Vandellos, 10/10/1971, includes note from
Vandellos
Interview w/ Mr. Karlinsky, Voice of America/USSR Division/Iraida Vandellos, 4/3/1967,
approx. 20 minutes
Gay Academic Union Conference, panel on Gay Men and Literature at NYU: Merrill Miller z9Chair), Karlinsky (Gogol), Edmund
White (Ronald Furbank), Richard Howard (Hart Crane), November 29-30, 1974, 61 minutes, 6 seconds