Research Catalog

Title

The essential fictions / Isaac Babel ; edited and translated from the Russian by Val Vinokur ; illustrations by Yefim Ladyzhensky.

Author

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940

Publication

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vinokur, Val
• Ladyzhenskiĭ, Efim Bent︠s︡ionovich, 1911-1982

Description

xviii, 404 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subjects

• Babelʹ, I (Isaak), 1894-1940
• Babelʹ, I (Isaak), 1894-1940 > Translations into English
• Short stories
• Russia > Fiction
• Translations

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Short stories.

Note

• Translated from the Russian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Openings -- Odessa -- Shabbos Nahamu -- Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofyevna -- Mama, Rimma, and Alla -- Through a crack -- The sin of Jesus -- Line and color -- Bagrat-Ogly and the eyes of his bull -- My first advance -- Guy de Maupassant -- The road -- The story of my dovecot (childhood cycle) -- Childhood. at grandmother's -- The story of my dovecot -- First love -- Awakening -- In the basement -- Grasso -- Odessa stories -- The king -- How it was done in Odessa -- The father -- Justice in brackets -- Lyubka the cossack -- Sunset -- Froim the rook -- The end of the poorhouse -- You missed the boat, Captain! -- Karl-Yankel -- Red cavalry -- The crossing of the Zbruch -- The church at Novograd -- A letter -- Chief of the remount service -- Pan Apolek -- The sun of Italy -- Gedali -- My first goose -- The rebbe -- The way to Brody -- A teaching on the Tachanka -- Dolgushov's death -- Brigcom two -- Sashka Christ -- The life story of Pavlichenko, Matvei Rodionych -- The cemetery in Kozin -- Prishchepa -- The story of a horse -- Konkin -- Berestechko -- Salt -- Evening -- Afonka Bida -- At Saint Valentine's -- Squadron commander Trunov -- The Ivans -- The story of a horse, continued -- The widow -- Zamoste -- Treason -- Chesniki -- After the battle -- The song -- The rebbe's son -- Red cavalry: additions -- Argamak -- The kiss -- Closings -- Our Batko Makhno -- The end of Saint Hypatius -- Dante Street -- The trial (from a notebook) -- The Ivan & Marya -- Crude -- Sulak -- Gapa Guzhva -- Kolyvushka.

Call Number

JFE 18-864

ISBN

• 9780810135956
• 0810135957

LCCN

2017021506

OCLC

975487325

Author

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

Title

The essential fictions / Isaac Babel ; edited and translated from the Russian by Val Vinokur ; illustrations by Yefim Ladyzhensky.

Publisher

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Vinokur, Val, editor, translator.

Ladyzhenskiĭ, Efim Bent︠s︡ionovich, 1911-1982, illustrator.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-864