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"I also recognized [the beginning of the movie about Gustave Mahler] as a short story by Isaac Babel called 'The Awakening.' The film-maker had lifted the story, without crediting the author, intact and almost verbatim.
Babel, like a lot of Russians, had disappeared in the late 1930s—so presumably the thinking was 'Who's gonna sue?'" (119)