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UNAUTHORIZED.
There are few documented examples of the fake or forged autobiography, although the genre probably has a long, secret history. Its most famous practitioner was Clifford Irving, who, in 1971, tried to publish the tell-all memoirs of Howard Hughes without telling Hughes. Irving's manuscript began with a brazen announcement that "more lies have been printed and told about me than about any living man" and that it was time for the "elusive, often painful truth." Irving made the mistake of releasing his manuscript while Hughes was still alive. Nothing kills an autobiography like a flat-out denial by the author.
In 1979, the Russian-emigre musicologist Solomon Volkov ...
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola.(Testimony: The Story of...
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Brown, Royal S. March 22, 2007 700+ words
...The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov; cinematography by Nic Knowland; music by Dmitri Shostakovich; starring Ben Kingsley...The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov, a Russian emigre with...
- The artist as holy fool.(Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary...
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Paloff, Benjamin January 1, 2004 700+ words
Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship...Composer and the Brutal Dictator By Solomon Volkov Translated by Antonia W. Bouis Knopf...published Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich and immediately placed himself at the...
- Facing off Stalin; Dmitri Shostakovich.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 13, 2004 700+ words
...censors were punished. Shostakovich went to New York. While Solomon Volkov uses the life of Shostakovich as its thread, the...culture minister. Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary...Brutal Dictator. By Solomon Volkov.
- Shostakovich: A Life.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes FROLOVA-WALKER, MARINA December 1, 2000 700+ words
...coherent, but partial, portrait of Shostakovich the secret dissident or Shostakovich the loyal Soviet citizen, Fay performs...Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (ed. Solomon Volkov, trans. Antonina W. Boulis [New...
- Shostakovich Reconsidered.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes SHEINBGERG, ESTI December 1, 1999 700+ words
Shostakovich Reconsidered. Written and...907689-56-6. $75.] Shostakovich Reconsidered incorporates...old debate concerning Solomon Volkov's Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (trans. Antonina W. Bouis...
- Composing and communism.(SHOSTAKOVICH RECONSIDERED)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 17, 1998 700+ words
Hollow triumph SHOSTAKOVICH RECONSIDERED. Edited...Soviet composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, "as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov", a fake? A cause c...Soviet censorship after Shostakovich's death in 1975. If...
- THE REHABILITATIONS OF SHOSTAKOVICH.
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect KINETZ, ERIKA August 14, 2000 700+ words
...seems like Orwellian irony) Shostakovich's "The Motherland is...strange happened: Dmitri Shostakovich became a dissident. Musicologists...Dmitry Feofanov and writer Solomon Volkov began to uncover sly anti...musical turn of phrase. Shostakovich got pegged as a "moral...
- Terrible genius of Dmitri Shostakovich (Shostakovich: a life remembered; Pis'ma...
- Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly Paul G. Mitchinson March 22, 1996 700+ words
...enthusiastic popular acclaim. Shostakovich's face even appeared on...In the 1950s and 1960s Shostakovich's reputation in the West...the appearance in 1979 of Solomon Volkov's Testimony (1) - a...purported to be the memoirs of Shostakovich - that signalled a more...
