Simon Karlinsky, 84, an emeritus professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California at Berkeley who wrote authoritative volumes on Gogol, Nabokov and Chekhov and was an ...
In this hyperliterary city, where Dostoevsky tours steer visitors to the supposed site of Raskolnikov’s savage crime, where the Nabokov Museum draws modernists to the émigré great’s childhood home, ...