Tag: Isaac Babel
The Bookshelf: The Bathroom Window
The main property of his prose was revealed early: the combination of heterogeneous layers – both the language and the .....
The Bookshelf: The Sin of Jesus
The epigraph to this story will be as follows: A woman and Jesus Christ is able to lead into sin! .....
The Bookshelf: Dante Street
The epigraph to this story will be as follows: The life of Paris in the Odessa slang sounds cool! Isaac .....
The Bookshelf: The Aroma of Odessa
Babel is one of the great masters of the short story, and for the translator a great and challenging master .....
The Bookshelf: Odessa
Babel’s prose does not merely draw on past themes and forms, but is the forging of a new manner of .....
The Bookshelf: Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna
Consonant with Babel’s background and milieu, his early stories explored the gritty middle-class world of a modern Russian city whose .....
The Bookshelf: Lyubka the Cossack
Babel was born in Odessa, a cosmopolitan and polyglot city that looked to the sea and beyond. It was, he .....
Odessa Film Studio – “Ukrainian Hollywood”
Are you still convinced that the cinema started in Paris, that the Lumière brothers invented it? This means that you .....
