The Collected Stories - Softcover

 
9780452007987: The Collected Stories

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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Review

"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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