New Book Announcement - The Enigma of Isaac Babel

[Alex Rudd]

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Stanford University Press is pleased to announce the publication of
The Engima of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context, edited by
Gregory Freidin.

A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has
remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive,
inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous
by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's
first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish
gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his own Russian
Jewish childhood, Babel has been celebrated by generations of readers,
all craving fuller knowledge of his works and days. Bringing together
scholars of different countries and areas of specialization, the
present volume is the first examination of Babel's life and art since
the fall of communism and the opening of Soviet archives. Part
biography, part history, part critical examination of the writer's
legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural contexts, The Enigma
of Isaac Babel will be of interest to the general reader and
specialist alike.

For more information about this book, please visit
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=15932

Alison Law
alaw at stanford.edu

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