The Essential Fictions

by Isaac Babel

Book Overview

The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Cavalry series and his Odessa Stories, is translated, edited, introduced, and annotated by Val Vinokur, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Translation, and features illustrations by Yefim Ladyzhensky, a painter known for his depictions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135957
• ISBN13: 9780810135956
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"