Background
Isaak Babel was born on July 13, 1894 in Odessa, Ukraine. He's a son of a merchant Manus Bobel. Babel was born to a middle-class family in the Jewish ghetto of Odessa.
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Language - English "A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic, James Woods wrote that this groundbreaking volume "represents a triumph of translating, editing, and publishing. Beautiful to hold, scholarly and also popularly accessible, it is an enactment of love." Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Babel has left his mark on a generation of readers and writers. This book will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award; A New York Times Notable Book, a and Library Journal Best Book, a Washington Post Book World Rave, a Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year.
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A book that will last, that you will reread all your life and then pass on to your grandchildren. Or ask to be buried with.?Michael Dirda, Washington PostFollowing the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of his fiction ever published in paperback. Babel was best known for his mastery of the short story form?in which he ranks alongside Kafka and Hemingway?but his career was tragically cut short when he was murdered by Stalin's secret police. Edited by his daughter Nathalie Babel and translated by award-winner Peter Constantine, this paperback edition includes the stunning Red Cavalry Stories; The Odessa Tales, featuring the legendary gangster Benya Krik; and the tragic later stories, including "Guy de Maupassant." This will be the standard edition of Babel's stories for years to come. Maps
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(The Lonely Years, a collection of private correspondence,...)
The Lonely Years, a collection of private correspondence, is essential to an understanding of Isaac Babel's life and works. Babel rose to fame in 1920s Russia for such books as Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories. But as Stalin's regime grew repressive, he found it increasingly difficult to write or publish. He was finally arrested in 1939, never to be heard from again. Alternately tender and biting, and accompanied by nine stories from the lonely years, these letters show an individual laboring against all odds to remain true to his craft and ideals. This edition contains a new introduction, based on previously unreleased information from the KGB files.
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Isaak Babel was born on July 13, 1894 in Odessa, Ukraine. He's a son of a merchant Manus Bobel. Babel was born to a middle-class family in the Jewish ghetto of Odessa.
Isaak attended Nikolaevskoe Commercial School (Odessa) in 1905-11 and then he graduated from Kiev Institute of Financial and Business Studies in 1915. Encouraged to develop a head for commerce, he attended a local business school while also continuing his traditional Judaic studies.
Isaak worked as a writer and journalist at New Life magazine in St. Petersburg, then a member of staff in 1918. He was an editor in 1919-1920 at Ukrainian State Publishing House. Then he moved to Poland and worked at YugROSTA (national wire service) as a war correspondent with Red Army’s First Cavalry in 1919-20. He worked briefly for the Cheka (political police force) in Petrograd in 1920, he worked at Tiflis (newspaper) in Tiflis, Caucasus as a correspondent. In 1930 he worked as a secretary at Molodenovo Village Soviet, secretary in 1930, then he was arrested and imprisoned in 1939. Also he passed over a military service at Russian Army, White Army in 1917-1919.
(The Lonely Years, a collection of private correspondence,...)
(A book that will last, that you will reread all your life...)
(Language - English "A celebration of literary genius fram...)
Representative to First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1924 and International Congress of Writers in Paris in 1935.
Quotes from others about the person
"Just what that revolution meant to him is not clear; yet at some level in his consciousness it seems to have been associated with his Jewish patrimony, and with the aspiration of generations of Jews for a better society and a better world,” maintained David McDuff in Reference Guide to Short Fiction.
Isaak was married Evgeniia Gronfein, in 1919. He has one daughter with that wife Nathalie and one more with Antonina Pirozhkova.