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Synopsis
The collected stories of Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel. A protege of Maxim Gorky, Babel served in a revolutionary cossack regiment and later came to be regarded as a leading proletarian writer. Arrested in 1937, he died two years later in a concentration camp.
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"Amazing not only as literature but as biography."
"Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic."
A monumental book.--Jonathan Rosen
A triumph Peter Constantine's translation is extraordinary.--James Wood"
A celebration of literary genius framed by twentieth-century tragedy...[Babel's stories] have an electrifying cumulative impact...He is a writer who stabs the mind and the heart and the inner eye with short, savage strokes.--Richard Bernstein
A triumph...Peter Constantine's translation is extraordinary.--James Wood
About the Author
Isaac Babel died in a Soviet gulag in 1941. Peter Constantine won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for his translation of Thomas Mann.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0140015221
- ISBN 13 9780140015225
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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