The Enigma of Isaac Babel : Biography, History, Context


Gregory. Freidin
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Freidin, Gregory (redaktør)
Utgitt
Stanford, Calif. : : Stanford University Press, , 2009.
Omfang
1 online resource (290 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface by Gregory Freidin; Contributors; Part One: Attempting a Biography; 1. Researching Babel's Biography:Adventures and Misadventures; 2. Two Babels-Two Aphrodites: Autobiography in Maria and Babel's Petersburg Myth; Part Two: Babel in the Context of Russian History; 3. The Reds and the Jews, or the Comrades in Arms of the Military Reporter Liutov; 4. Isaac Babel and the Jewish Experience of Revolution; 5. Writers at the Front: Language of State in the Civil War Narratives of Isaac Babel and Dmitrii Furmanov. - 6. Thinned and Diluted: Babel in Published Russian Literature of the Soviet PeriodPart Three: Babel in the World of Letters and On Stage; 7. Babel, Flaubert, and the Rapture of Perception; 8. Toward a Typology of "Debut" Narratives: Babel, Nabokov, and Others; 9. Pan Pisar': Clerkship in Babel's First-Person Narration; 10. The Child's Eye: Isaac Babel's Innovations in Narration in Russian-Jewish, American, and European Literary Contexts; 11. Text, Intertext, Context: Babel, Bialik, and Others; 12. Staging Babel's Maria-For Young American Audiences, Seventy Years After; Notes; Index. - Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the great Russian Jewish author since the opening of Soviet archives.
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0-8047-5903-0(ib.) : Nkr 388.00. - 978-0-8047-5903-8

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