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Isaac Babel's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Isaac Babel
Category: Fiction
This Norton Critical Edition is based on Peter Constantine’s incomparable translations, which are introduced and annotated by the renowned Babel scholar Gregory Freidin. Isaac Babel’s work has left an indelible mark on modern literature. The scope of this Norton Critical Edition surpasses that of any o ...Show more
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel; Boris Dralyuk
Category: Fiction
A collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution.
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel
Category: History
'Everyone makes mistakes, even God.' In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolutio ...Show more
Odessa Stories (Russian language ed.) - Illustrations by Vladimir Ryklin by Isaac Babel; Vladimir Ryklin (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction
As all of his works, these stories are a nightmare to translate. You are lucky if you can read the original. Set 100 years ago, these tales tell of the lives of the people of Odessa, a big Ukrainian city and a port, run by gangsters, which are, interestingly, Jewish gangsters. So we get characters such ...Show more
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories by Isaac Babel
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
'Compact, irreverent, enigmatic, savage and tender... it is impossible to look at the world the same way after reading Babel... one of the enduring jewels of 20th-century Russian literature' - Financial Times Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conver ...Show more
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Category: Fiction
One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Bab ...Show more
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal ...Show more
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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-Jewi ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
Category: Judaica
Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of his fiction ever published in paperback. Babel was best known for his mastery of the short story form-in wh ...Show more
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
Category: Classic Fiction
Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, "Los Angeles Times"). Reviewing the work in "The New Republic," James ...Show more
The Essential Fictions by Isaac Babel; Val Vinokur (Translator)
Category: Classics
The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Cavalry series and his Odessa Stories, is translated, edited, introduced, and annotated by Val Vinoku ...Show more
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