Complete Works Of Isaac Babel

Complete Works Of Isaac Babel

Author: Исаак Бабель

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1084

ISBN-13: 9780393048469

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Presents the collected short stories of a master of the form, along with his letters, plays, diaries, and screenplays.


Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Author: Isaac Babel

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002-10-29

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780393324020

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To read Babel is to experience the wild and often terrifying swings of Russian history."--BOOK JACKET.


Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Author: Isaac Babel

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-07-07

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0141908300

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Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red Cavalry'. Babel's masterpiece, 'Red Cavalry' is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.


Isaac Babel's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Editions)

Isaac Babel's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Editions)

Author: Isaac Babel

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 0393927032

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(Kashirina), M. N. Berkov, Iosif Stalin, Vyacheslav Polonsky, Clara Malraux, Kornei Chukovsky, Erwin Sinko, Antonina Pirozhkova, Dmitry Furmanov, and others. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time." ""Criticism" brings together five major assessments of Babel's legacy, by Viktor Shklovsky, Semyon Budyonny, Lionel Trilling, Efraim Sicher, and Gregory Freidin." "A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography complete this Norton Critical Edition." --Book Jacket.


At His Side

At His Side

Author: Антонина Николаевна Пирожкова

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"I wish to restore to public memory certain features of a man endowed with great goodness of spirit, a passionate interest in people, and a miraculous gift for depicting them". So begins Pirozhkova's memoir of her life with Isaac Babel, perhaps the Soviet Union's greatest writer, and one of the literary world's most lively and endearing characters. Photos.


The Essential Fictions

The Essential Fictions

Author: Isaak Babelʹ

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780810135956

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Isaac Babel: The Essential Fictions is a collection of seventy-two of Isaac Babel's finest short stories and includes Red Cavalry, Odessa Stories, and the "Dovecote" cycle. Newly edited, translated, and annotated by Val Vinokur, this collection also features illustrations by Babel's fellow Odessan Yefim Ladyzhensky.


Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

Author: Isaac Babel

Publisher: Pushkin Collection

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1782277811

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A new selection of Isaac Babel's 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris Dralyuk Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence. These stories take us from the underworld of Babel's native Odessa, city of gangsters and lowlives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War. Selected and translated by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk, this collection captures the irreverence, passion and coarse beauty of Babel's singular voice.


Odessa Stories

Odessa Stories

Author: Isaac Babel

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1782274731

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A collection of “electric, heroically wrought” Russian short stories of violence, crime, and sex set in Ukraine—for fans of hard-boiled fiction by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (John Updike) Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel—a Jewish man, writing in Russian and born in Odessa—uncover its tough underbelly around the time of the Russian Revolution. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel’s pen. From the tales of the magnetic cruelty of Benya Krik—infamous mob boss, and one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature—to the devastating semi-autobiographical account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, this collection of stories is considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, Odessa Stories is the first ever stand-alone collection of Babel’s narratives set in the city and includes the original stories as well as later tales. “The salty speech of the city’s inhabitants is wonderfully rendered in a new translation by Boris Dralyuk . . . Hard-boiled language reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett.” —Vice


The Enigma of Isaac Babel

The Enigma of Isaac Babel

Author: Gregory Freidin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009-10-21

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0804773335

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A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his own Russian Jewish childhood, Babel has been celebrated by generations of readers, all craving fuller knowledge of his works and days. Bringing together scholars of different countries and areas of specialization, the present volume is the first examination of Babel's life and art since the fall of communism and the opening of Soviet archives. Part biography, part history, part critical examination of the writer's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural contexts, The Enigma of Isaac Babel will be of interest to the general reader and specialist alike.