Collected stories
A newly translated collection of stories. His desire to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them gives Babel a duality of vision, which infuses his work with a powerful energy, from the earliest tales.
xxix, 363 p. 20 cm
9780140184624, 0140184627
1087644484
EARLY STORIES: Old Shloyme, Ilya lsaakovich and Margarita Prokofyevna; Shabbes Nakhamu; 'AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL' STORIES: Childhood. With Grandmother, The Story of My Dovecot, First Love, In the Basement, Awakening, Di Grasso, Guy de Maupassant, The Journey; RED CAVALRY: Crossing the Zbrucz, The Catholic Church in Novograd; A Letter; The Konzapas Commander, Pan Apolek, The Sun of Italy, Gedali, My First Goose, The Rebbe, The Way to Brody, The Theory of the Tachanka, The Death of Dolgushov, Kombrig 2, Sashka Christ, The Life Story of Pavlichenko, Matvey Rodionych, The Cemetery in Kozin, Prishchepa, The Story of a Horse, Konkin, Beresteczko, Salt, Evening, Afonka Bida, At St Valentine's, Squadron Commander Trunov, The Ivans, A Sequel to the Story of a Horse, The Widow, Zamosc, Treason, Czesniki, After the Battle, The Song, The Rebbe's Son, Argamak; ODESSA STORIES: The King, How It was Done in Odessa, Justice in Brackets,, Lyubka Kozak, The Father, Sunset, The End of the Almshouse, Karl-Yankel..