Odessa Stories Paperback / softback
by Isaac Babel
Paperback / softback
Description
Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly.
Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel's pen. From the tales of the magnetic cruelty of Benya Krik - infamous mob boss, and one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - to the devastating semi-autobiographical account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, this collection of stories is considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, Odessa Stories is the first ever stand-alone collection of all the stories Babel set in the city - and includes tales from the original collection as well as later ones.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Pushkin Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2018
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- ISBN:9781782274735
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Pushkin Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781782274735