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1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel disappeared in May 1939 when he was arrested by Soviet secret police. As Soviet-era archives have become subject to scholarly scrutiny so it has become possible to create a more rounded portrait of Babel & to answer questions about his fate. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Babel I., 1894-1940 Babel I., Isaak -- Congresses -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Russian literature -- Jewish authors. |
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Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Russian literature. |
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20th century |
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Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography -- Congresses.
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Authors, Russian. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Freidin, Gregory.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Enigma of Isaac Babel. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009 9780804759038 (DLC) 2008020027 (OCoLC)228701230 |
| ISBN |
9780804773331 (electronic book) |
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0804773335 (electronic book) |
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0804759030 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804759038 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804759038 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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