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1 de nov. de 2018 · Babel was one of the great Russian writers, his life cut short by Stalin's cruelty. These stories capture life in early 20th-century Odessa, a city of great criminality and great artistic life (all at the same time). The Odessa stories are gritty and yet have a kind of sweet nostalgia, a sentimentality about them.
- Isaac Babel
1 de nov. de 2018 · Buy Odessa Stories By Isaac Babel. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over $10. ISBN: 9781782274735. ISBN-10: 1782274731
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 ...
10 de nov. de 2016 · Review: Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel. I received a review copy of this title from Pushkin Press via Edelweiss. The collection was published in the original Russian in 1931 and this English version has been translated by Boris Dralyuk. Boris graciously agreed to an interview which is included after the review.
In the city of Odessa, the lawless streets hide darker stories of their own. From the magnetic cruelty of mob boss Benya Krik to the devastating account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, Odessa Stories uncovers the tales of gangsters, prostitutes, beggars and smugglers: no one can escape the pungent, sinewy force of Isaac Babel's pen.
- Isaac Babel
23 de jun. de 2018 · Isaak Babel (1894–1940), one of the best known Soviet Russian prose writers of the twenties, published a series of short stories about his hometown of Odessa between 1921 and 1937. They are loosely connected by a number of characters but contain inconsistencies and, because of political repression and Babel’s arrest in May 1939, were never ...
5 de may. de 2022 · Odessa Stories. Isaac Babel, born in Odessa in 1894, was a writer who chronicled the bloody birth of the Soviet Union. Show more. Download. Choose your file. Higher quality (128kbps) Lower quality ...
