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Isaac Babel
One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and…
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A book that will last, that you will reread all your life and then pass on to your grandchildren. Or ask to be buried with. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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Isaac Babel,Nathalie Babel
Amazing not only as literature but as biography. -Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 - 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of…
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A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy. –Richard Bernstein, New York Times
I. Babel
Isaac Babel was a Jewish writer in the former Soviet Union who rose to fame in the 1920s for books such as Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories. But as Stalin’s…
Offers contemporary readers seventy-three short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia’s premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel’s famous Red Calvary series and his Odessa Stories, was…
A collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution.
‘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’ -…
Rebecca Stanton
In what marks an exciting new critical direction, Rebecca Stanton contends that the city of Odessa–as a canonical literary image and as a kaleidoscopic cultural milieu–shaped the narrative strategies developed…
Rebecca Jane Stanton
Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel’s legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the great…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Isaac Babel’s My First Goose, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
This diary by Russian writer Isaac Babel recounts his experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-20. The basis for Red Cavalry , Babel’s best-known work, it…
