Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac

by Babel, Isaac

ISBN13: 9780452003477

ISBN10: 0452003474

Format: Paperback

Publisher(s): Plume

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Summary

Edited by his daughter Nathalie 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."

Introduction	p. 11
Editor's Preface	p. 17
Translator's Foreword	p. 27
Acknowledgments	p. 31
Old Shloyme	p. 39
At Grandmother's	p. 43
Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna	p. 49
Mama, Rimma, and Alla	p. 53
The Public Library	p. 63
Nine	p. 67
Odessa	p. 71
The Aroma of Odessa	p. 76
Inspiration	p. 79
Doudou	p. 82
Shabos-Nakhamu	p. 84
On the Field of Honor	p. 91
The Sin of Jesus	p. 100
An Evening with the Empress	p. 105
Chink	p. 108
A Tale About a Woman	p. 110
The Bathroom Window	p. 113
Bagrat-Ogly and the Eyes of His Bull	p. 115
Line and Color	p. 117
You Missed the Boat, Captain!	p. 120
The End of St. Hypatius	p. 122
A Story	p. 125
The King	p. 133
Justice in Parentheses	p. 140
How Things Were Done in Odessa	p. 146
Lyubka the Cossack	p. 155
The Father	p. 161
Froim Grach	p. 170
The End of the Almshouse	p. 176
Sunset	p. 185
Crossing the River Zbrucz	p. 203
The Church in Novograd	p. 205
A Letter	p. 208
The Reserve Cavalry Commander	p. 213
Pan Apolek	p. 216
Italian Sun	p. 223
Gedali	p. 227
My First Goose	p. 230
The Rabbi	p. 234
The Road to Brody	p. 237
The Tachanka Theory	p. 239
Dolgushov's Death	p. 242
The Commander of the Second Brigade	p. 246
Sashka Christ	p. 248
The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko	p. 253
The Cemetery in Kozin	p. 259
Prishchepa	p. 260
The Story of a Horse	p. 262
Konkin	p. 266
Berestechko	p. 270
Salt	p. 273
Evening	p. 277
Afonka Bida	p. 280
At Saint Valentine's	p. 286
Squadron Commander Trunov	p. 290
Ivan and Ivan	p. 297
The Continuation of the Story of a Horse	p. 304
The Widow	p. 306
Zamosc	p. 311
Treason	p. 315
Czesniki	p. 320
After the Battle	p. 324
The Song	p. 328
The Rabbi's Son	p. 331
Makhno's Boys	p. 337
A Hardworking Woman	p. 339
Grishchuk	p. 342
Argamak	p. 344
The Kiss	p. 350
And Then There Were Nine	p. 356
And Then There Were Ten	p. 360
A Letter to the Editor	p. 362
The Story of my Dovecote	p. 365
First Love	p. 376
Karl-Yankel	p. 383
The Awakening	p. 392
In the Basement	p. 399
Gapa Guzhva	p. 408
Kolyvushka	p. 416
The Road	p. 423
The Ivan and Maria	p. 431
Guy De Maupassant	p. 443
Petroleum	p. 451
Dante Street	p. 457
Di Grasso	p. 463
Sulak	p. 467
The Trial	p. 470
My First Fee	p. 473
The Jewess	p. 482
Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel: A Chronology by Gregory Freidin	p. 495
Notes	p. 503
Map: Babel's Russia	p. 36
Map: Babel's Odessa	p. 130
Map: Volhynia, 1920	p. 198
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