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The Essential Fictions

The Essential Fictions

Babel, Isaac
Vinokur, Val

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ISBN10: 0810135957
ISBN13: 9780810135956
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Published: Nov 15 2017
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 Vinokur, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Translation, and features illustrations by Yefim Ladyzhensky, a painter known for his depictions of everyday life under Soviet rule in Babel's native Odessa.

Babel was born in 1894 into multicultural Odessa's thriving Jewish community. Working as a journalist, he witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War, and accompanied the Cossack horsemen of the Red Cavalry during the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, distilling these experiences into his fiction. Vinokur highlights Babel's horrified hopefulness and doleful and bespectacled Jewish comedy in the face of the bloody conflicts that plagued his generation.

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