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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

by Isaac Babel

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Unfinished since I bought [book:The Complete Works of Isaac Babel]. I tagged this as being for sale/swap, but took it off since the translations are different and I thought it'd be fun to compare. ( )
donp | Nov 17, 2008 |  
Very impressive, classic
davidaime | Jun 13, 2008 |  
These are outstanding stories, especially the group entitled "Red Calvary," written by the enigmatic Russian-Jewish master. As a war correspondent for ROSTA, the Soviet news agency, Babel traveled with a group of Cossacks during the Civil War. "Red Calvary" is the fruit of that experience. He was swept away in one of Stalin's periodic purges and executed as a Trotskyite in 1940. ( )
mewilbur | Jun 5, 2007 | 1 vote
What I have read is excellent, have not read through all the stories, though. ( )
Poemblaze | Aug 7, 2006 |  
Some of the most luminous short stories written, and the cavalry stories put Hemingway's pretensions to engagement to shame. ( )
OmieWise | Jan 26, 2006 |  
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0393324028, Paperback)

Following 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.

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