Babel in context : a study in cultural identity / Efraim Sicher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sicher, Efraim.

Series:

Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)

Borderlines : Russian and East European-Jewish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Babelʹ, I.

Authors, Russian.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF files.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Boston, MA Academic Studies Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' was-an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel''s work. It looks at Babel''s cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel' and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the "Jewishness" of their work.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Note on References and Translations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 / Isaak Babelʹ: A Brief Life

2 / Reference and Interference

3 / Babelʹ, Bialik, and Others

4 / Midrash and History: A Key to the Babelesque Imagination

5 / A Russian Maupassant

6 / Babelʹ's Civil War

7 / A Voyeur on a Collective Farm

Bibliography of Works by Babelʹ and Recommended Reading

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781618118530

1618118536

9781618111456

1618111450

OCLC:

822894072