Collected Stories (Modern Classics)
I. Babel
ISBN 10: 0140015221 ISBN 13: 9780140015225
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1974
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A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR001720294
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.
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
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Collected Stories (Modern Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London
Publication Date: 1974
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair