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Isaac Babel

Born

in Odessa, Ukraine

July 13, 1894

Died

January 27, 1940

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 1894 - 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of my Dovecote and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry."

Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Isaak Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge due to his longterm affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of May 15, 1939. After "confessing", under torture, to being a Trotskyist terrorist and for ...more

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	Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, Peter Constantine (Translator), Michael Dirda (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 4,399 ratings — published 1926 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel, Peter Constantine (Translator), Cynthia Ozick (Introduction), Nathalie Babel (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 2,641 ratings — published 1957 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 1,792 ratings — published 1931 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Конармия. Одесские Рассказы. 4.12 avg rating — 1,039 ratings — published 1926 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel, Cynthia Ozick (Introduction), Isaac Babel 4.36 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 2001 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel, David McDuff (Translation/Introduction), Efraim Sicher (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 1926 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, H.T. Willetts (Translator), Carol J. Avins (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Must Know Everything really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1915 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My First Goose 3.41 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1925 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Benya Krik, the Gangster and Other Stories by Isaac Babel, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Editor, Translator), Bernard G. Guerney (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1948 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
― Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

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“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”
― Isaac Babel

tags: fiction, narrative, on-fiction, reality, story

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“Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)”
― Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry and Other Stories

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