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The Enigma of Isaac Babel - Biography, History, Context (Hardcover)
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The Enigma of Isaac Babel - Biography, History, Context (Hardcover)
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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.
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