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Isaac Babel's Selected Writings

Isaac Babel's Selected Writings

BiographyEssays
Pages
400
Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition presents a comprehensive selection of Isaac Babel's writings, featuring Peter Constantine's award-winning translation. It includes early fiction, Red Cavalry, The Tales of Odessa, autobiographical stories, journalism, and plays, alongside contextual and critical materials. The volume also contains selected letters from Babel to his family, reminiscences from contemporaries like Maxim Gorky and Iosif Stalin, and major critical assessments of his legacy.

Prose complexity
10/10

Vibe

InformativeIntellectualComplexThought-Provoking

Genres

Biography Essays

About the author

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Isaac Babel

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 13 July) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.