“Look After Your Son’s Talents”: The Literary Notebook of Mariya Prokofieva

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments viii
4. Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Titles xii
5. PART I: DOCUMENTS
6. “Look After Your Son’s Talents”: The Literary Notebook of Mariya Prokofieva 2
7. The Krzhizhanovsky-Prokofiev Collaboration on Eugene Onegin, 1936 (A Lesser-Known Casualty of the Pushkin Death Jubilee) 60
8. Prokofiev and Atovmyan: Correspondence, 1933–1952 190
9. Prokofiev’s Immortalization 285
10. PART II: ESSAYS
11. “I Came Too Soon”: Prokofiev’s Early Career in America 334
12. Lieutenant Kizhe: New Media, New Means 376
13. Observations on Prokofiev’s Sketchbooks 401
14. Prokofiev on the Los Angeles Limited 423
15. Between Two Aesthetics: The Revision of Pilnyak’s Mahogany and Prokofiev’s Fourth Symphony 452
16. After Prokofiev 493
17. Beyond Death and Evil: Prokofiev’s Spirituality and Christian Science 530
18. Permissions and Credits 562
19. Index 563
20. Notes on the Contributors 578