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Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity

Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity

Sicher, Efraim

Hardcover

Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

Literary CriticismJudaism

ISBN10: 1936235951
ISBN13: 9781936235957
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' was--an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel''s work. It looks at Babel''s cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel' and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the Jewishness of their work.

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