Isaac Babel (1894–1940)
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Isaac Babel was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1894. He won early success with stories about his native Odessa and about the exploits of the Bolshevik cavalry in the Polish campaign of 1920-21. During the 1930s his output was small, but his talent remained undiminished. He was arrested in May 1939 mostra altro during the Great Purge, and his manuscripts were confiscated. His exact fate remains unknown. Although Babel's reputation was restored in 1956, he was still published only occasionally in the Soviet Union-the very strong Jewish element in his stories, as well as the ambiguous positions he took on war and revolution, made his stories uncomfortable for Soviet authorities. For a Russian reader, the Odessa Tales (1916) are particularly exotic. Their protagonists, members of the city's Jewish underworld, are presented in romantic, epic terms. The Red Cavalry stories are noted for their account of the horrors of war. In both cycles Babel relies on precisely constructed short plots, on paradox of situation and of character response, and on nonstandard, captivating language-be it the combination of Yiddish, slang, and standard Russian in the Odessa Tales or of uneducated Cossack speech and standard Russian in the Red Cavalry cycle. The result of such features is a prose heritage rare in the history of Russian literature. Isaac Babel passed away in 1941. (Bowker Author Biography) Isaac Babel was born on July 13, 1894 in Odessa, Russia, to a middle-class Jewish family. He attended the Institute of Business Studies. His life was filled with persecution, which greatly influenced his writing. During the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution, Babel served as a soldier in Poland. This experience provided him with material for Red Cavalry, a collection of his stories. Later, in the Odessa Tales, published in 1931, Babel drew on his Jewish heritage to create colorful and memorable characters. As with many great artists in Russia, Babel's creative style was unpopular with the Stalin regime. Babel admitted to a long association with Trotskyites, but denied this testimony at his trial. He was ultimately found guilty of espionage and shot in Moscow in 1939, although, nearly a year later, his wife and the general public were told that he died in a labor camp. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel: the lonely years 1925-1939 : unpublished stories and private correspondence (1964) 41 copie
Toneel 13 copie
Конармия. Одесские Рассказы. 5 copie
Manoscritto da Odessa 4 copie
My First Goose 3 copie
Verhalen (Van Oorscot) 2 copie
Utwory wybrane 2 copie
A Letter 2 copie
Rusia. Volumen 2 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Stat'i i materialy 2 copie
В Одессе и около 2 copie
Большие пожары 2 copie
Opowiadania odeskie i inne 1 copia
"Crossing into Poland" 1 copia
И. Бабель: Избранное 1 copia
Детство и другие рассказы 1 copia
"The Story of My Dovecote" 1 copia
"First Love" 1 copia
"The King" 1 copia
Crvena konjica - odeske priče 1 copia
"How Things Were Done in Odessa" 1 copia
Dziennik 1920 1 copia
Prvá jazdecká : Poviedky 1 copia
Prosa 1 copia
Cuentos de Odessa : Relatos 1 copia
Lovashadsereg 1 copia
Babel Isaac 1 copia
Le storie di Odessa 1 copia
In the Basement 1 copia
Werke, Zweiter Band 1 copia
El despertar 1 copia
Nouvelles 1 copia
Kızıl Süvariler 1 copia
Odessa stories 1 copia
Contos sovi©♭ticos 1 copia
CONTOS SOVIÉTICOS 1 copia
Salt 1 copia
Dolgushov’s Death 1 copia
Werke, Erster Band 1 copia
Centenary of Isaak Babel 1 copia
Punainen ratsuväki 1 copia
"The Sin of Jesus" 1 copia
El comandante del escuadrón 1 copia
Siete relatos 1 copia
Maria : näidend 8 pildis 1 copia
"Pan Apolek" 1 copia
Contos de Odessa 1 copia
Isaac Babel: Complete Works 1 copia
Correspondance: (1923-1939) 1 copia
Στο υπόγειο και άλλες ιστορίες 1 copia
Lioubka la cosaque 1 copia
Benya Krik 1 copia
El comandante del escuadrón 1 copia
Early Stories 1 copia
The Odessa Stories 1 copia
Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh 1 copia
Red Calvary and Other Stories 1 copia
Detstvo i drugie rasskazy. 1 copia
Utwory odnalezione 1 copia
Rytterarméen 1 copia
חיל הפרשים ועוד סיפורים 1 copia
“My First Goose” 1 copia
Racconti di Odessa 1 copia
GUVERCINLIGIMIN HIKAYESI 1 copia
Verhalen 1913-1924 1 copia
Collected Stories 1 copia
Crvena konjica 1 copia
El Despertar 1 copia
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Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak (1960) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Babel, Isaac
- Nome legale
- Бабель, Исаак Эммануилович
Babel, Isaak Emmanuïlovitsj - Altri nomi
- Babel, Isaak
Ljoetov, Kirill Vasiljevitsj - Data di nascita
- 1894-07-13
- Data di morte
- 1940-01-27
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Begraven, Massa Graf, Kerkhof Donskojklooster, Moskou, Rusland
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Rusland
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Oekraïne
- Luogo di nascita
- Odessa, Russische Rijk
- Luogo di morte
- Butyrka gevangenis, Moskou, USSR
- Causa della morte
- Firing squad
- Luogo di residenza
- Odessa, Russische Rijk
Sint Petersburg, Russische Rijk - Istruzione
- Kiev Institute of Finance and Business
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
writer
literary translator
short story writer
playwright
diarist - Relazioni
- Gorky, Maksim (vriend)
Brown, Nathalie Babel (dochter)
Paustovskij, Konstantin (vriend) - Breve biografia
- Isaac Babel was born to a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). In 1911, Babel went to study economics and business at the Kiev Institute of Finance and Business Studies, receiving his degree in 1916. While finishing his studies in Kiev, he also enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the Psycho-Neurological Institute in St. Petersburg. At this time, he met Maxim Gorky, who welcomed Babel into a literary career by publishing a selection of his short stories in the November 1916 issue of his journal Letopis (Chronicle). Gorky's mentorship was a major coup for a fledgling author and assured his wider recognition. Babel also became a journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of the acclaimed collections Red Cavalry (1920s) and Odessa Stories (1921-24). Stalin's Great Terror purges destroyed the lives and careers of many of Babel’s friends, and finally reached Babel himself. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police on May 15, 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on January 27, 1940.
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Se vi affascina questa città leggendaria, porto levantino della grande Russia, ideale polo opposto del porto di Murmansk sull’Artico dove il mare non gela grazie alle estreme propaggini della corrente del golfo, crogiolo di popoli e di lingue, questo è il libro per voi. Si legge d’un fiato.
È il libro che Rumiz si è portato nel suo viaggio raccontato in Trans Europa Express (di cui parleremo).
La lingua di Babel’ è pura poesia. Eccone due esempi:
[…] una polpetta, profumata come un’infanzia felice (pos. 1036)
[…] fremevano, come il lievito col quale fermenta la vendetta (pos. 1423)… (altro)