A Shostakovich Casebook
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Editor: Malcolm Hamrick BrownEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-14
ISBN: 025334364X
Number of pages: 392
Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Book Review: A Reply to Tim Page
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never posted a review before, but I can't allow the above "editorial review" to go unanswered. I don't understand how, after reading Laurel Fay's article in this book, there could possibly be a sliver of doubt in anybody's mind that Testimony is a massive fraud.
While I agree that the view of Dmitri Shostakovich as a loyal communist is naive and simplistic, the view espoused by Testimony is at least as much so. The veracity of the portrait of Shostakovich presented in Testimony is, at least, open to questions. The authenticity of the book itself has been demolished by Laurel Fay's excellent detective work. There can no longer be any doubt that what Shostakovich affixed his signature to was a collection of previously published writings. The departure from these earlier texts comes, in every single case, immediately following the end of the page which has been signed. There could not be any clearer evidence that the authentification of the book was carried out under false pretenses.
Mr. Page draws attention to the agressive tone and the sometimes-monotonous focus of A Shostakovich Casebook. Publishing this kind of jeremiad wouldn't be necessary if Western journalists didn't persist in their stubborn refusal to acknowledge that Testimony, whatever its merits may be, was written by Solomon Volkov without the help of Dmitri Shostakovich.
--<A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/jikatz/www">Jonah I. Katz</A>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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