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The enigma of Isaac Babel : biography, history, context /

A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel disappeared in May 1939 when he was arrested by Soviet secret police. As Soviet-era archives have become subject to scholarly scrutiny so it has become possible to create a more rounded portrait of Babel & to answer questions about hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freidin, Gregory
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Attempting a biography. Researching Babel's biography : adventures and misadventures / Patricia Blake
  • Babels' two Aphrodites : autobiography in Maria and Babel's Petersburg myth / Gregory Freidin
  • Babel in the context of Russian history. The Reds and the Jews, or the comrades in arms of the military reporter Liutov / Oleg Budnitskii
  • Isaac Babel and the Jewish experience of revolution / Carol J. Avins
  • Writers at the front : language of state in the Civil War narratives of Isaac Babel and Dmitrii Furmanov / Michael S. Gorham
  • Thinned and diluted : Babel in published Russian literature of the Soviet period / Marietta Chudakova
  • Babel in the world of letters and on stage. Babel, Flaubert, and the rapture of perception / Robert Alter
  • Towards a typology of "debut" narratives : Babel, Nabokov, and others / Alexander Zholkovsky
  • Pan Pisar' : clerkship in Babel's first-person narration / Elif Batuman
  • The child's eye : Isaac Babel in Russian-Jewish, American, and European literature of assimilation / Zsuzsa Hetényi
  • Text, intertext, context : Babel, Bialik, and others / Efraim Sicher
  • Staging Babel's Maria for young American audiences, seventy years after / Carl Weber.