The enigma of Isaac Babel biography history context 1st Edition by Gregory Freidin ISBN 0804759030 978-0804759038

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ISBN 10: 0804759030

ISBN 13: 978-0804759038 

Author: Gregory Freidin

A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin’s secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world’s first “embedded” war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his own Russian Jewish childhood, Babel has been celebrated by generations of readers, all craving fuller knowledge of his works and days. Bringing together scholars of different countries and areas of specialization, the present volume is the first examination of Babel’s life and art since the fall of communism and the opening of Soviet archives. Part biography, part history, part critical examination of the writer’s legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural contexts, The Enigma of Isaac Babel will be of interest to the general reader and specialist alike.

Table of contents:

1 Researching Babel’s Biography: Adventures and Misadventures – Patricia Blake
2 Two Babels–Two Aphrodites: Autobiography in Maria and Babel’s Petersburg Myth – Gregory Freidin
3 The Reds and the Jews, or the Comrades in Arms of the Military Reporter Liutov – Oleg Budnitskii
4 Isaac Babel and the Jewish Experience of Revolution – Carol J. Avins
5 Writers at the Front: Language of State in the Civil War Narratives of Isaac Babel and Dmitrii Furmanov – Michael S. Gorham
6 Thinned and Diluted: Babel in Published Russian Literature of the Soviet Period – Marietta Chudakova
7 Babel, Flaubert, and the Rapture of Perception – Robert Alter
8 Toward a Typology of “Debut” Narratives: Babel, Nabokov, and Others – Alexander Zholkovsky
9 Pan Pisar’: Clerkship in Babel’s First-Person Narration – Elif Batuman
10 The Child’s Eye: Isaac Babel’s Innovations in Narration in Russian-Jewish, American, and European Literary Contexts – Zsuzsa Hetényi
11 Text, Intertext, Context: Babel, Bialik, and Others – Efraim Sicher
12 Staging Babel’s Maria – For Young American Audiences, Seventy Years After – Carl Weber

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