The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-three short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Calvary series and his Odessa Stories, was 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 of everyday life under Soviet rule in Babel's native Odessa. Babel was born in 1894 into multicultural Odessa's thriving Jewish community....
The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-three short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac...