Isaac Babel : the lonely years, 1925-1939 ; unpublished stories and private correspondence. / translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew and Max Hayward ; edited and with an introd. by Nathalie Babel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 1964

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940--Correspondence.

Babelʹ, I.

Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Soviet Union.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

regular print

Other Title:

The lonely years.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, [1964]

Summary:

Book Description: 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Nathalie Babel

Stories:

Kolyvushka / translated by Max Hayward

Froim Grach / translated by Max Hayward

Answer to an inquiry / translated by Max Hayward

My first fee / translated by Max Hayward

Gapa Guzhva / translated by Andrew R MacAndrew

Mamma, Rimma and Alla / translated by Andrew R MacAndrew

Ilya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna / translated by Andrew R MacAndrew

Tale of a woman / translated by Andrew R MacAndrew

Letters:

Letters from Isaac Babel to his mother and sister, 1925-1939

Appendix:

1: Review of Babel's play Sunset by P Markov

2a: Marshal Semyon Budyonny's "Open letter to Maxim Gorky"

2b: Gorky's answer to Budyonny's "Open letter" and defense of Babel

3a: Article by Bruno Yasensky

3b: Press release issued after meeting of the Federation of the Organization of Soviet Writers (FOSP)

4: Maxim Gorky's account of a nine-year-old literary prodigy who had spent the evening with Babel and Gorky

5: Speech given by Babel at the Congress of Soviet Writers in Moscow, August 23, 1934

6: Babel's speech delivered at the meeting of the Writers' Union in Moscow, March 5th, 1936.

Local Notes:

CJS copy gift of Saperstein, M.

Other Format:

Online version: Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940. Selections. English. 1964. Isaac Babel.

OCLC:

1175503