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Biographical note
Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of 45.Compact, irreverent, enigmatic, savage and tender... it is impossible to look at the world the same way after reading Babel... one of the enduring jewels of 20th-century Russian literature
Financial Times
Fractured, jarring, beautiful, alive to humour... they have the ring of contemporaneity, and probably always will
Guardian
Unforgettable stories, lyrical and earthy
Irish Times
Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic
- James Wood, New Republic
Elegiac, but not in the usual sense: Babel's is an ebullient elegy, filled with violence, sex, and life
LA Review of Books
Following his equally magical renderings of Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories in recent years, Mr Dralyuk has positioned himself as a master of the era's language, injecting welcome new life into an under-appreciated school of Russian literature
Economist
Translator’s Preface
Guy de Maupassant
(Part I) Childhood and Youth
The Story of My Dovecote
First Love
In the Basement
The Awakening
Di Grasso
(Part II) Gangsters and “Old Odessans”
The King
How It Was Done in Odessa
Lyubka the Cossack
Father
Justice in Quotes
The End of the Almshouse
(Part III) Red Cavalry
Crossing the Zbrucz
The Catholic Church in Novograd
A Letter
Pan Apolek
The Italian Sun
Gedali
My First Goose
The Rebbe
The Tachanka Doctrine
The Death of Dolgushov
The Life Story of Pavlichenko, Matvei Rodionych
Salt
The Rebbe’s Son
Argamak