Research Catalog

Title

Odessa Stories / Isaac Babel ; translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk.

Author

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940

Publication

London : Pushkin Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Dralyuk, Boris

Description

221 pages; 17 cm

Summary

'Everyone makes mistakes, even God.' In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolution. Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature, this is the first ever stand-alone collection of all Babel's narratives set in the city, and includes the original stories as well as later tales.

Uniform Title

Odesskie rasskazy. English

Alternative Title

Odesskie rasskazy.

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

• Short stories
• Fiction
• Translations
• Fiction.
• Short stories.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (219-221 pages)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Odessa stories: Isaac Babel and his city / Boris Dralyuk -- Part I Gangsters and other "Old Odessans" -- The king -- How it was done in Odessa -- Lyubka the Cossack -- Father -- Justice in quotes -- Sunset -- The end of the almshouse -- Froim the rook -- Karl-Yankel -- Part II Childhood and youth -- The story of my dovecote -- First love -- In the basement -- The awakening -- Di Grasso -- Part III Loose leaves and apocrypha -- Odessa -- You fell for it, Captain! -- Esther's ring.

ISBN

• 178227166X
• 9781782271666
• 9781782271796 (ebook)

OCLC

• 940933107
• SCSB-12604830

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library