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Isaac Babel's genre of silence. (Books).
The romance of revolution has repeatedly seduced European intellectuals and nowhere more intensely than in Russia. In the late nineteenth century, Russia became the first country in which young members of the intelligentsia, when asked their career choice, might answer "revolutionary" or "terrorist"--a choice regarded as highly honorable, albeit dangerous. Indeed, the word "intelligentsia" was originally a Russian coinage, meaning not a thinking or educated person, but one, however well or ill educated, committed wholeheartedly to socialism, atheism, and revolution. If we reflect that this group actually succeeded in taking over the state--Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin were ...
- Isaac Babel's 'Red Cavalry' Diary: A Russian Master's Notebook
- Newspaper article from: Forward Leonard Fein March 21, 1995 700+ words
...Fein Forward 03-21-1995 Isaac Babel's `Red Cavalry' Diary: A Russian Master...Russian secret police arrested Isaac Babel, confiscating and burning the...his short story masterpiece "Red Cavalry." 21 July 1920. Pelcha...
- The Complete Works of Isaac Babel. (book review)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Prose, Francine November 1, 2001 700+ words
...The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, translated by Peter Constantine...Like all the stories in Isaac Babel's 1926 masterpiece, Red Cavalry, "My First Goose" is...international success; Red Cavalry was published here in 1929...
- Series of Events Planned to Commemorate the Life and Art of Isaac Babel,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 28, 2004 700+ words
...brilliant legacy of Isaac Babel, a Russian Jewish master...the publication of his Red Cavalry in 1926, and perished...an exhibition, "Isaac Babel: A Writer's Life...conference, "The Enigma of Isaac Babel." The exhibition...
- Witnesses to our times: Isaac Babel and Paul Celan; Two seminal
- Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent Jack Fischel July 14, 1995 700+ words
...those true believers was Isaac Babel, who was to become one...became the basis for Red Cavalry, perhaps his best known...The publication of Isaac Babel, 1920 Diary, edited...came to be published as Red Cavalry in 1926. Resisted Soviet...
- Plucking the heart out of Isaac Babel's mystery.(Review Essay)(Savage...
- Magazine article from: Midstream Pinsker, Sanford January 1, 2006 700+ words
...masterful introduction to an edition of Isaac Babel's Complete Works, Cynthia Ozick expresses...stories about Babel's own ride with the Red Cavalry, no sense of a poetic, troubled language...Babel was, in his most famous book, Red Cavalry, (1926) a Russian version of the...
- Autumnal heart.(Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel)(Book...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Meyers, Jeffrey February 1, 2006 700+ words
...The Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Random House, 213...hotel or a prison?" Isaac Babel was "linked to the...General Semion Budenny's Red Cavalry in Poland, Babel wrote...and created the Red Cavalry, with its machine...
- At the side of a Russian writer: Memoir tells of life with Isaac...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Geracimos, Ann May 20, 1997 700+ words
...known, is the widow of Isaac Babel, one of Russia's...possibility of staging Isaac Babel's plays. The latter...of Congress. * * * Isaac Babel was born in Odessa in...most famous book was "Red Cavalry," published in 1926...
- Mingled biographies and mangled lives: Isaac Babel--a first glance.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Midstream Charyn, Jerome September 1, 2005 700+ words
...collected stories of Isaac Babel, a writer who'd become...Russian Revolution, Red Cavalry, a cycle of stories...imitating the artistry of Isaac Babel. By 1954, a year before...he was writing about Isaac Babel, the poet of violence...