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1 de nov. de 2018 · Buy Odessa Stories By Isaac Babel. New & used copies available with free US shipping on orders over $10. ISBN: 9781782274735. ISBN-10: 1782274731
28 de oct. de 2001 · Hide-and-Seek. Isaac Babel was born in the Moldavanka, a poor, raffish district of Odessa, in 1894, and died, it has been established only within the last ten years, in Moscow's Lubyanka prison ...
22 de mar. de 2022 · In Babel's stories, Odessa is presented with both affection and humour. It is, he wrote in 1916, the "most charming of cities in the Russian Empire… where the living is light and easy."
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.
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 ...
This aspect of Odessa is what we particularly find in Part I of Odessa Stories, ‘Gangsters and Other “Old Odessans”’. Babel’s gang boss Benya (The King) Krik owes his origin to the real life Mishka Yaponchik (1891-1919), a gangster active in Odessa not many years before Babel began writing and publishing these stories.
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