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Author | : Isaac Babel |
Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1782274731 |
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
Author | : Charles King |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393080528 |
Winner of a National Jewish Book Award "Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary Review From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and offering the first detailed account of the destruction of the city's Jewish community during the Second World War, Charles King's Odessa is both history and elegy—a vivid chronicle of a multicultural city and its remarkable resilience over the past two centuries.
Author | : Isaak Babelʹ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780810135956 |
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.
Author | : Isaac Babel |
Publisher | : Lebooks Editora |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2024-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 6558943069 |
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, better known as Isaac Babel, was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin. Despite being an idealistic advocate of Marxism and Leninism, he was arrested, tortured, and executed during Stalin's Great Purge. "The Odessa Stories" a collection published in 1931, is a selection of beautiful stories by Babel whose narratives take place in the city of Odessa. Babel describes, among other stories, the life of the fictional Jewish mafia boss, Benya Krik, one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature, and his gang in the Moldavanka ghetto during the time of the October Revolution. Isaac Babel is a master of conciseness. This characteristic was emphasized by the writer himself when he once declared that while Tolstoy could narrate minute by minute everything that happened to him throughout a day, he preferred to focus on the five most interesting minutes. It is a fact that Isaac Babel's narratives are profoundly interesting. An excellent and captivating read.
Author | : Isaac Babel |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393324020 |
To read Babel is to experience the wild and often terrifying swings of Russian history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Исаак Бабель |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1084 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393048469 |
Presents the collected short stories of a master of the form, along with his letters, plays, diaries, and screenplays.
Author | : O. Classe |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9781884964367 |
Author | : Isaak Babelʹ |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140184624 |
Collects stories by Isaac Babel, including "In the Basement," "Awakening," "The Sun of Italy," and "My First Goose," and features notes on the text.
Author | : Jeremy Tambling |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 1977 |
Release | : 2022-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319624199 |
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Author | : Cassio de Oliveira |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2023-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0228015073 |
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not usually associated with Soviet literature, yet an entire body of work produced between the October Revolution and the Stalinist Great Terror was constructed around them. In Writing RoguesCassio de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia that rejected imperial power and attempted to deemphasize national allegiances. Combining new readings of canonical works with in-depth analysis of neglected texts, Writing Rogues explores the proliferation of characters left on the sidelines of the communist transition, including gangsters, con men, and petty thieves, many of them portrayed as ethnic minorities. The book engages with scholarship on Soviet subjectivity as well as classical picaresque literature in order to explain how the subversive rogue – such as Ilf and Petrov’s wildly popular cynic and schemer Ostap Bender – in the process of becoming a fully fledged Soviet citizen, came to expose and embody the contradictions of Soviet life itself. Writing Rogues enriches our understanding of how literature was called upon to participate in the construction of Soviet identity. It demonstrates that the Soviet picaresque resonated with individual citizens’ fears and aspirations as it recorded the country’s transformation into the first communist state.