Simon Karlinsky, who wrote authoritative volumes on Gogol, Nabokov and Chekhov, has died at 84.
Karlinsky, who taught at UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1991, was the author, editor or translator of eight books, including "Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary" (1974), which Times critic Robert Kirsch said "may be the best single study of Chekhov ever done."
This is sad news indeed. When I was studying Russian in college, I read his, "Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol" which kind of blew my mind. I would still recommend that book to anyone interested in understanding Gogol.
Posted by: Niall | July 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM