Collected Stor Isaac Babel Pa

by Babel,Isaac

• ISBN13: 9780393324020
• ISBN10: 0393324028
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of his fiction ever published in paperback. Babel was best known for his mastery of the short story form'”in which he ranks alongside Kafka and Hemingway'”but his career was tragically cut short when he was murdered by Stalin's secret police. Edited by his daughter Nathalie Babel and translated by award-winner Peter Constantine, this paperback edition includes the stunning Red Cavalry Stories; The Odessa Tales , featuring the legendary gangster Benya Krik; and the tragic later stories, including "Guy de Maupassant." This will be the standard edition of Babel's stories for years to come.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(17)
Cynthia Ozick
Editor's Preface	17	(10)
Translator's Foreword	27	(4)
Acknowledgments	31	(6)
Early Stories	37	(92)
Old Shloyme	39	(4)
At Grandmother's	43	(6)
Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna	49	(4)
Mama, Rimma, and Alla	53	(10)
The Public Library	63	(4)
Nine	67	(4)
Odessa	71	(5)
The Aroma of Odessa	76	(3)
Inspiration	79	(3)
Doudou	82	(2)
Shabos-Nakhamu	84	(7)
On the Field of Honor	91	(9)
On the Field of Honor	91	(2)
The Deserter	93	(2)
Papa Marescot's Family	95	(2)
The Quaker	97	(3)
The Sin of Jesus	100	(5)
An Evening with the Empress	105	(3)
Chink	108	(2)
A Tale About a Woman	110	(3)
The Bathroom Window	113	(2)
Bagrat-Ogly and the Eyes of His Bull	115	(2)
Line and Color	117	(3)
You Missed the Boat, Captain!	120	(2)
The End of St. Hypatius	122	(3)
A Story	125	(4)
The Odessa Stories	129	(68)
The King	133	(7)
Justice in Parentheses	140	(6)
How Things were Done in Odessa	146	(9)
Lyubka the Cossack	155	(6)
The Father	161	(9)
Froim Grach	170	(6)
The End of the Almshouse	176	(9)
Sunset	185	(12)
The Red Cavalry Stories	197	(138)
Crossing the River Zbrucz	203	(2)
The Church in Novograd	205	(3)
A Letter	208	(5)
The Reserve Cavalry Commander	213	(3)
Pan Apolek	216	(7)
Italian Sun	223	(4)
Gedali	227	(3)
My First Goose	230	(4)
The Rabbi	234	(3)
The Road to Brody	237	(2)
The Tachanka Theory	239	(3)
Dolgushov's Death	242	(4)
The Commander of the Second Brigade	246	(2)
Sashka Christ	248	(5)
The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko	253	(6)
The Cemetery in Kozin	259	(1)
Prishchepa	260	(2)
The Story of a Horse	262	(4)
Konkin	266	(4)
Berestechko	270	(3)
Salt	273	(4)
Evening	277	(3)
Afonka Bida	280	(6)
At Saint Valentine's	286	(4)
Squadron Commander Trunov	290	(7)
Ivan and Ivan	297	(7)
The Continuation of the Story of a Horse	304	(2)
The Widow	306	(5)
Zamosc	311	(4)
Treason	315	(5)
Czesniki	320	(4)
After the Battle	324	(4)
The Song	328	(3)
The Rabbi's Son	331	(4)
The Red Cavalry Cycle: Additional Stories	335	(28)
Makhno's Boys	337	(2)
A Hardworking Woman	339	(3)
Grishchuk	342	(2)
Argamak	344	(6)
The Kiss	350	(6)
And then there were Nine	356	(4)
And then there were Ten	360	(2)
A Letter to the Editor	362	(1)
Stories, 1925-1938	363	(132)
The Story of My Dovecote	365	(11)
First Love	376	(7)
Karl-Yankel	383	(9)
The Awakening	392	(7)
In the Basement	399	(9)
Gapa Guzhva	408	(8)
Kolyvushka	416	(7)
The Road	423	(8)
The Ivan and Maria	431	(12)
Guy De Maupassant	443	(8)
Petroleum	451	(6)
Dante Street	457	(6)
Di Grasso	463	(4)
Sulak	467	(3)
The Trial	470	(3)
My First Fee	473	(9)
The Jewess	482	(13)
Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel: A Chronology by Gregory Freidin	495	(8)
Notes	503