From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fiction of the
great Russian-Jewish writer
One of the most powerful short-story writers of the twentieth
century, Isaac Babel expressed his sense of inner conflict through
disturbing tales that explored the contradictions of Russian
society. Whether reflecting on anti-Semitism in stories such as
?Story of My Dovecote? and ?First Love, ? or depicting Jewish
gangsters in his native Odessa, Babel's eye for the comical laid
bare the ironies of history. His masterpiece, ?Red Cavalry, ? set
in the Soviet-Polish war, is one of the classics of modern fiction.
By turns flamboyant and restrained, this collection of Babel's
best-known stories vividly expresses the horrors of his age.
?Amazing not only as literature but as biography.? ?Richard
Bernstein, "The New York Times"
?Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic.? ?James Wood, "The
New Republic"
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