The enigma of Isaac Babel : biography, history, context / edited by Gregory Freidin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freidin, Gregory.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Babelʹ, I.

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Criticism and interpretation.

Russian literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Authors, Russian--20th century--Biography--Congresses.

Authors, Russian.

Russian literature--Jewish authors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Attempting a biography. Researching Babel's biography : adventures and misadventures / Patricia Blake

Two 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 literary contexts / Zsuzsa Hetényi

Text, intertext, context : Babel, Bialik, and others / Efraim Sicher

Staging Babel's Maria

for young American audiences, seventy years after / Carl Weber.

Notes:

"Earlier versions of most of these essays were solicited for and presented at the Isaac Babel Workshop at Stanford University in February-March, 2004"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780804759038

0804759030

OCLC:

228701230

Publisher Number:

99935705400