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Odessa Stories (Russian: Одесские рассказы, romanized: Odesskiye rasskazy), also known as Tales of Odessa, is a collection of four short stories by Isaac Babel, set in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution.
- Одесские рассказы
- Soviet Union
The 17 stories included in Odessa Stories are arranged in three parts. 9 picaresque stories revolve around the adventures of mobster ‘King’ Benya Krik and other ‘Old Odessans’; 5 stories draw on Babel’s childhood and youth and are assumed semi-autobiographical; 3 are found under the title ‘Loose leaves and Apocrypha’.
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Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature, this is the first ever stand-alone collection of all Babel's narratives set in the city,...
- Isaak Babelʹ
- Odessa StoriesPushkin Collection
- Pushkin Press, 2016
- Boris Dralyuk
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...
15 de nov. de 2016 · 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....
1 de nov. de 2016 · Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel review – criminally good. Lively tales from Russia’s first modernist about the Ukrainian port city once run by Jewish gangsters. Nicholas Lezard. Tue 1 Nov 2016...
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