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Simon Karlinsky (Russian: Семён Аркадьевич Карлинский; September 22, 1924 – July 5, 2009) was an American Slavist, literary scholar, LGBTQ historian, and Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
He was born in 1924 in Harbin to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father Aron was a photographer and his mother Sofia (née Levitina) was a manager of a women's clothing shop-atelier. He was the only child in the family and attended a Russian school, where he showed literary and musical ability. In 1932, Japan occupied Manchuria, and the Russian fascists who had settled in the city began to attack the Jewish population. In 1938, the family emigrates to Los Angeles, USA. Simon attends Balmont High School and, in 1941-43, Los Angeles City College.[1]
In 1944, during World War II, Karlinsky enlists in the U.S. Army and is sent to the European front. In 1945, he serves as an army interpreter in Berlin, is discharged from the army in 1946, but remains to work as an interpreter for the American mission. In 1951 he moves to Paris and studies with Arthur Honegger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, but after a year he returns to Berlin, where he continues his musical education at the Berlin Higher School of Music with Boris Blacher.[1]
In January 1958, Karlinsky returned to the United States. Seeing no prospects for a musical career, he turned to literature, although he continued to be interested in music and later published some musicological works. In 1960 he graduated with a red degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Slavic languages and literature. Then in 1961 he completed a master's program at Harvard University. However, he soon returned to teach at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in 1964 (doctoral dissertation on Marina Tsvetaeva). Karlinsky became full professor in 1967, the same year he became chair of the Department of History of Slavic Languages and Literature at UCLA. He retired in 1991.[1]
Simon Karlinsky's research interests include Russian literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Russian modernism, Russian theater and drama, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, the interaction of Russian literature with French, English and German cultures, women's and LGBT studies. His work was taboo in the USSR. He was a pioneer of Russian queer history. One of his most famous works was on the homosexuality of the Russian-Ukrainian writer Vasily Gogol.[1]
Semyon Karlinsky was openly gay and married Peter Carleton, living with him for 35 years until his death.[1]
- ^ a b c d e "IN MEMORIAM". University of California. 2011-10-17. Archived from the original on 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2024-11-12.