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Autumnal heart.(Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel)(Book review)
Jerome Charyn Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Random House, 213 pages, $24.95
The best Soviet writers were extinguished tinder Stalin. Osip Mandelstam died in a prison camp; Marina Tsvetayeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Sergei Yesenin committed suicide. Whenever torturers failed to extract immediate confessions, Stalin would ask: "Is this a hotel or a prison?" Isaac Babel was "linked to the wife of the enemy of the people Yezhov," former chief of the secret police. In January 1940, after a twenty-minute trial, Babel was condemned and shot in the head. His body was burnt, as well as his manuscripts and diaries, and his ashes were thrown into ...
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