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Author Sicher, Efraim.

Title Babel' in context : a study in cultural identity / Efraim Sicher.

Publication Info. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (308 pages))
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Series Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies
Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
Note Includes some text in Russian.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-288) and index.
Contents Isaak Babel' : a brief life -- Reference and interference -- Babel', Bialik, and others -- Midrash and history : a key to the Babelesque imagination -- A Russian Maupassant -- Babel's Civil War -- A voyeur on a collective farm.
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Summary Annotation. Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' wasan Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel's work. It looks at Babel's cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel' and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the Jewishness of their work.
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Language English.
Subject Babel, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Babel, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJf8yDm7MQwmcbMYyyjDMP
Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Jewish studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature -- Jewish authors
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Babel' in context. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012 9781936235957 (DLC) 2012289878
ISBN 9781618111456 (ebk.)
1618111450 (electronic bk.)
9781618111456
9781618118530 (electronic bk.)
1618118536 (electronic bk.)
9781936235957
1936235951
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DEBBG BV044094636
DEBSZ 429971699
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999901872505765
NZ1 14975268

 
    
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