Author: Isaac Babel

The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russias premier storytellers, Isaac Babel....

Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his s...

The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality ...

Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly...