Freidin (Slavic languages and literature, Stanford U. ) presents 12 papers exploring the life and work of Soviet writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940), who produced a number of short stories, two plays, and various newspaper articles before he became a victim of the Stalinist purges. The papers reconstruct his biography; place his writings in the context of the turbulent political, cultural, and social circumstances of the first decades following the Russian Revolution; and conduct analyses of more specifically literary issues, such as Babel's debt to Flaubert and his use of linguistic elements of Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew in his works. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Copyright:
2009
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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780804773331
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Date of Addition:
04/04/12
Copyrighted By:
the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.