The enigma of Isaac Babel : biography, history, context

The enigma of Isaac Babel : biography, history, context / edited by Gregory Freidin.

Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the Russian Jewish author since the opening of Soviet archives.

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Other Authors: Freidin, Gregory
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Babelʹ, I. > (Isaak), > 1894-1940 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses.
Russian literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism > Congresses.
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Biography > Congresses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Attempting a biography. Researching Babel's biography : adventures and misadventures / Patricia Blake
  • Babels' two Aphrodites : autobiography in Maria and Babel's Petersburg myth / Gregory Freidin
  • Babel in the context of Russian history. The Reds and the Jews, or the comrades in arms of the military reporter Liutov / Oleg Budnitskii
  • Isaac Babel and the Jewish experience of revolution / Carol J. Avins
  • Writers at the front : language of state in the Civil War narratives of Isaac Babel and Dmitrii Furmanov / Michael S. Gorham
  • Thinned and diluted : Babel in published Russian literature of the Soviet period / Marietta Chudakova
  • Babel in the world of letters and on stage. Babel, Flaubert, and the rapture of perception / Robert Alter
  • Towards a typology of "debut" narratives : Babel, Nabokov, and others / Alexander Zholkovsky
  • Pan Pisar' : clerkship in Babel's first-person narration / Elif Batuman
  • The child's eye : Isaac Babel in Russian-Jewish, American, and European literature of assimilation / Zsuzsa Hetényi
  • Text, intertext, context : Babel, Bialik, and others / Efraim Sicher
  • Staging Babel's Maria for young American audiences, seventy years after / Carl Weber.

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