August 01, 2009

SIMON KARLINSKY RIP.

A nice LA Times obit (by Elaine Woo) for the Berkeley Slavicist Simon Karlinsky; I have his excellent book The Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West, 1922-1972 and should really get his classic work on Gogol. I love the picture of him with his husband Peter Carleton: they look like a wonderful couple. Thanks, Eric!

Posted by languagehat at August 1, 2009 10:40 PM
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Thanks for posting this -- I took one of his last classes at Berkeley in 91. An amazing, brilliant, interesting, wonderful person.

Posted by: Carolyn at August 2, 2009 06:28 AM