Babel in context : : a study in cultural identity / / Efraim Sicher.
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...
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| Superior document: | Borderlines : Russian and East European-Jewish studies |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF files. |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on References and Translations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 / Isaak Babelʹ: A Brief Life
- 2 / Reference and Interference
- 3 / Babelʹ, Bialik, and Others
- 4 / Midrash and History: A Key to the Babelesque Imagination
- 5 / A Russian Maupassant
- 6 / Babelʹ's Civil War
- 7 / A Voyeur on a Collective Farm
- Bibliography of Works by Babelʹ and Recommended Reading
- Notes
- Index