| Description |
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (308 pages)) |
| Series |
Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies |
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Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
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| Contents |
Isaak Babel' : a brief life -- Reference and interference -- Babel', Bialik, and others -- Midrash and history : a key to the Babelesque imagination -- A Russian Maupassant -- Babel's Civil War -- A voyeur on a collective farm |
| Summary |
Annotation. Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' wasan Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel's work. It looks at Babel's cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel' and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the Jewishness of their work |
| Notes |
Includes some text in Russian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-288) and index |
| Notes |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
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English |
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Print version record; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 fast |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Jewish studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Russian literature -- Jewish authors
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019666774 |
| ISBN |
9781618111456 |
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1618111450 |
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9781618111456 |
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9781618118530 |
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1618118536 |
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