Babel, Isaac - Collected Stories (Meridian, 1974)
pdf | 15.18 MB | English | Author :Isaac Babel | B000TMHW9G | 1960 | Meridian Fiction

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Isaac Babel was born in Odessa in 1894, and grew up in the traditional atmosphere of a lower middle-class Jewish family. At the age of twenty-one he went to St. Petersburg, where he lived as a hungry bohemian, dodging the Czarist police because he lacked the residence certificate required of Je. Gorky was the first to encourage Babel by printing two of his stories in the magazine LETOPIS. During the revolution and civil war, Babel held a series of minor posts, fought with the cavalry, and then later operated a printing press in Odessa. In 1923 he returned to literature with a number of short stories printed in periodicals. Their instant success encouraged him to publish two volumes of stories: TALES OF ODESSA and RED CALVARY, and other stories, scenarios, and plays followed. The exact nature of Babel's fate is uncertain. He was arrested during the purges of the late 1930's, and died in a concentration camp in 1939 or 1940, either by typhus or shooting.

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