Comp Works Isaac Babel PA

by Babel,Isaac

• ISBN13: 9780393328240
• ISBN10: 0393328244
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic, James Woods wrote that this groundbreaking volume "represents a triumph of translating, editing, and publishing. Beautiful to hold, scholarly and also popularly accessible, it is an enactment of love." Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Babel has left his mark on a generation of readers and writers. This book will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award; A New York Times Notable Book, a and Library Journal Best Book, a Washington Post Book World Rave, a Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(6)
Cynthia Ozick
Editor's Preface	19	(10)
Translator's Foreword	29	(6)
Acknowledgments	35	(6)
I. Early Stories	41	(88)
Old Shloyme	43	(4)
At Grandmother's	47	(6)
Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna	53	(4)
Mama, Rimma, and Alla	57	(10)
The Public Library	67	(4)
Nine	71	(4)
Odessa	75	(5)
The Aroma of Odessa	80	(3)
Inspiration	83	(3)
Doudou	86	(2)
Shabos-Nakhamu	88	(7)
On the Field of Honor	95	(9)
The Deserter	97	(2)
Papa Marescot's Family	99	(2)
The Quaker	101	(3)
The Sin of Jesus	104	(5)
An Evening With the Empress	109	(3)
Chink	112	(2)
A Tale About a Woman	114	(3)
The Bathroom Window	117	(2)
Bagrat-Ogly and the Eyes of His Bull	119	(2)
Line and Color	121	(3)
You Missed the Boat, Captain!	124	(2)
The End of St. Hypatius	126	(3)
II. 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)
III. 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)
IV. 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)
V. The Red Cavalryman: Articles	363	(14)
What We Need is More Men Like Trunov!	365	(2)
The Knights of Civilization	367	(2)
Dispatch Office, Shape Up!	369	(2)
Murderers Who Have Yet To Be Clubbed To Death	371	(3)
Her Day	374	(3)
VI. 1920 Diary	377	(96)
VII. Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories	473	(12)
VIII. Reports from Petersburg, 1918	485	(62)
First Aid	487	(3)
Horses	490	(3)
Premature Babies	493	(2)
The Dead	495	(3)
The Palace of Motherhood	498	(3)
Evacuees	501	(2)
Mosaic	503	(3)
Quite an Institution!	506	(3)
The Georgian, The Kerensky Rubles, and the General's Daughter (A Modern Tale)	509	(5)
The Blind	514	(4)
The Evening	518	(3)
I Was Standing At the Back	521	(3)
A Beast Can't Talk	524	(3)
Finns	527	(3)
A New Life	530	(4)
An Incident on the Nevsky Prospekt	534	(2)
The Most Holy Patriarch	536	(3)
At the Station: A Sketch from Life	539	(2)
On Palace Square	541	(2)
The Concert in Katerinenstadt	543	(4)
IX. Reports from Georgia, 1922-1924	547	(32)
At the Workers' Retreat	549	(3)
Kamo and Shaumian	552	(4)
Without a Homeland	556	(3)
Muslim Seminaries and Soviet Schools	559	(4)
Tobacco	563	(4)
Gagry	567	(2)
In Chakva	569	(4)
Renovations and Refurbishment	573	(3)
Paris and Juliet	576	(3)
X. Reports from France, 1935	579	(20)
The City of Light	581	(3)
French Schools	584	(2)
Town and Country	586	(2)
Court of Justice and Parliament	588	(2)
The Popular Front	590	(2)
The Power of Money	592	(3)
The Red Belt	595	(4)
XI. Stories, 1925-1938	599	(120)
The Story of My Dovecote	601	(11)
First Love	612	(7)
Karl-Yankel	619	(9)
The Awakening	628	(7)
In the Basement	635	(9)
Gapa Guzhva	644	(8)
Kolyvushka	652	(7)
The Road	659	(8)
The Ivan and Maria	667	(12)
Guy De Maupassant	679	(8)
Petroleum	687	(6)
Dante Street	693	(6)
Di Grasso	699	(4)
Sulak	703	(3)
The Trial	706	(3)
My First Fee	709	(10)
XII. Variations and Manuscripts	719	(34)
Roaming Stars: A Movie Tale	721	(8)
A Story	729	(3)
Information	732	(4)
Three in the Afternoon	736	(4)
The Jewess	740	(13)
XIII. Plays	753	(90)
Sunset	755	(45)
Maria	800	(43)
XIV. Screenplays	843	(182)
Roaming Stars	845	(51)
Benya Krik	896	(45)
The Chinese Mill (An Attempted Mobilization)	941	(28)
Number 4 Staraya Square	969	(47)
Two Scenes From The Forging of Steel	1016	(1)
The Germans in the Ukraine	1016	(6)
In Petlyura's Prison	1022	(3)
Afterword: A Personal Memoir	1025	(27)
Nathalie Babel
Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel: A Chronology	1052	(7)
Gregory Freidin
Notes	1059
Maps: Babel's Russia	18	(112)
Babel's Odessa	130	(68)
Volhynia, 1920	198