TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sicher, Efraim
AB  - 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 was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture and 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.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006474
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135847474
KW  - History
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Biography
KW  - Short story
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - Odessa
KW  - Jewish studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/adf7e974-f194-4bcc-a59c-9a954b268001/1006474.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23669
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2012-10-01
SN  - 9781618118530
TI  - Babel' in Context : A Study in Cultural Identity
ER  - 
