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Isaac Babel (1894–1940)

Autor de Collected Stories

205+ Obras 3,823 Miembros 77 Reseñas 25 Preferidas

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Isaac Babel was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1894. He won early success with stories about his native Odessa and about the exploits of the Bolshevik cavalry in the Polish campaign of 1920-21. During the 1930s his output was small, but his talent remained undiminished. He was arrested in May 1939 mostrar más during the Great Purge, and his manuscripts were confiscated. His exact fate remains unknown. Although Babel's reputation was restored in 1956, he was still published only occasionally in the Soviet Union-the very strong Jewish element in his stories, as well as the ambiguous positions he took on war and revolution, made his stories uncomfortable for Soviet authorities. For a Russian reader, the Odessa Tales (1916) are particularly exotic. Their protagonists, members of the city's Jewish underworld, are presented in romantic, epic terms. The Red Cavalry stories are noted for their account of the horrors of war. In both cycles Babel relies on precisely constructed short plots, on paradox of situation and of character response, and on nonstandard, captivating language-be it the combination of Yiddish, slang, and standard Russian in the Odessa Tales or of uneducated Cossack speech and standard Russian in the Red Cavalry cycle. The result of such features is a prose heritage rare in the history of Russian literature. Isaac Babel passed away in 1941. (Bowker Author Biography) Isaac Babel was born on July 13, 1894 in Odessa, Russia, to a middle-class Jewish family. He attended the Institute of Business Studies. His life was filled with persecution, which greatly influenced his writing. During the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution, Babel served as a soldier in Poland. This experience provided him with material for Red Cavalry, a collection of his stories. Later, in the Odessa Tales, published in 1931, Babel drew on his Jewish heritage to create colorful and memorable characters. As with many great artists in Russia, Babel's creative style was unpopular with the Stalin regime. Babel admitted to a long association with Trotskyites, but denied this testimony at his trial. He was ultimately found guilty of espionage and shot in Moscow in 1939, although, nearly a year later, his wife and the general public were told that he died in a labor camp. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Isaac Babel

Collected Stories (1929) 1,058 copias
Caballería roja (1926) 760 copias
Cuentos de Odessa ; Relatos (1931) 283 copias
1920 diary (1989) 157 copias
You Must Know Everything (1966) 105 copias
Quatre contes russos (2009) 43 copias
The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre (Penguin Classics) (1990) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
The Essential Fictions (2017) 14 copias
Toneel 13 copias
Избранное (1983) 13 copias
Odessa (1967) 11 copias
How It Was Done in Odessa (2002) 8 copias
Maria: uma Peça e Cinco Histórias (2003) — Autor — 8 copias
Benya Krik (1948) 8 copias
Stelle erranti 7 copias
Dziennik 1920 (1990) 5 copias
Iszaak Babel művei (1986) 4 copias
Traonto (1991) 4 copias
Prosa (1983) 4 copias
Historia jednego konia (1988) 3 copias
Vremenu i sebi (1967) 3 copias
My First Goose 3 copias
Mes premiers honoraires (1972) 3 copias
The forgotten prose (1978) 3 copias
Utwory wybrane 2 copias
Guy de Maupassant (1935) 2 copias
Odessa (2019) 2 copias
Journal pétersbourgeois (2013) 2 copias
Konarmia ; Dziennik 1920 (1999) 2 copias
A Letter 2 copias
Rusia. Volumen 2 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Isaak Babel. Izbrannoe (2000) 2 copias
Nello scantinato (2006) 2 copias
Odessa Stories (1931) 2 copias
"First Love" 1 copia
"The King" 1 copia
Sumrak (1979) 1 copia
Dziennik 1920 1 copia
Prosa 1 copia
Lovashadsereg 1 copia
Babel Isaac 1 copia
オデッサ物語 (1995) 1 copia
El despertar 1 copia
Nouvelles 1 copia
Odesskie rasskazy (2014) 1 copia
Salt 1 copia
Siete relatos 1 copia
"Pan Apolek" 1 copia
Lyubka the Cossack (1963) 1 copia
Benya Krik 1 copia
Werke : Zweiter Band (1973) 1 copia
Werke : Erster Band (1973) 1 copia
Early Stories 1 copia
caballeria roja (2011) 1 copia
Peterburg 1918 (1989) 1 copia
Rytterarmeen (2023) 1 copia
Zwei Welten (1960) 1 copia
Die traurige Strasse : (1965) 1 copia
Rytterarméen 1 copia
L'armata a cavallo (2001) 1 copia
Caballería roja (1901) 1 copia
El Despertar 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,132 copias
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Contribuidor — 763 copias
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Contribuidor — 531 copias
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 463 copias
The Penguin Book of War (1999) — Contribuidor — 451 copias
Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (1962) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones335 copias
Great Jewish Short Stories (1963) — Autor, algunas ediciones240 copias
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (2005) — Contribuidor — 223 copias
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 213 copias
Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories (1958) — Contribuidor — 143 copias
Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 132 copias
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 131 copias
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones129 copias
Great Modern European Short Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 113 copias
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 112 copias
Great Soviet Short Stories (1962) — Contribuidor — 77 copias
A Golden Treasure of Jewish Literature (1937) — Contribuidor — 75 copias
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (2003) — Contribuidor — 51 copias
Modern Jewish stories (1963) — Contribuidor — 36 copias
Found in Translation (2018) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones36 copias
Escape: Stories of Getting Away (2002) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Horse Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
14 Great Short Stories By Soviet Authors (1959) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
Russische liefdesverhalen (1961) — Autor — 11 copias
Russische verhalen (1965) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones7 copias
Moderne joodse verhalen (1964) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Penguin Modern Stories 4 (1970) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
De 43ste april : zeven verhalen op één thema (1961) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Skaz: Masters of Russian Storytelling (2014) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
The Noble Savage 3 (1961) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Prachtig weer verhalen (1994) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Russland das große Lesebuch (2017) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contribuidor — 1 copia
現代ソヴェト文学18人集〈第1〉… (1967) — Autor — 1 copia
世界短編名作選〈ソビエト編〉 (1978年) (1978) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
ロシア短篇24 (現代の世界文学) (1987) — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Babel, Isaac
Nombre legal
Бабель, Исаак Эммануилович
Babel, Isaak Emmanuïlovitsj
Otros nombres
Babel, Isaak
Ljoetov, Kirill Vasiljevitsj
Fecha de nacimiento
1894-07-13
Fecha de fallecimiento
1940-01-27
Lugar de sepultura
Begraven, Massa Graf, Kerkhof Donskojklooster, Moskou, Rusland
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Rusland
País (para mapa)
Oekraïne
Lugar de nacimiento
Odessa, Russische Rijk
Lugar de fallecimiento
Butyrka gevangenis, Moskou, USSR
Causa de fallecimiento
Firing squad
Lugares de residencia
Odessa, Russische Rijk
Sint Petersburg, Russische Rijk
Educación
Kiev Institute of Finance and Business
Ocupaciones
journalist
writer
literary translator
short story writer
playwright
diarist
Relaciones
Gorky, Maksim (vriend)
Brown, Nathalie Babel (dochter)
Paustovskij, Konstantin (vriend)
Biografía breve
Isaac Babel was born to a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). In 1911, Babel went to study economics and business at the Kiev Institute of Finance and Business Studies, receiving his degree in 1916. While finishing his studies in Kiev, he also enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the Psycho-Neurological Institute in St. Petersburg. At this time, he met Maxim Gorky, who welcomed Babel into a literary career by publishing a selection of his short stories in the November 1916 issue of his journal Letopis (Chronicle). Gorky's mentorship was a major coup for a fledgling author and assured his wider recognition. Babel also became a journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of the acclaimed collections Red Cavalry (1920s) and Odessa Stories (1921-24). Stalin's Great Terror purges destroyed the lives and careers of many of Babel’s friends, and finally reached Babel himself. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police on May 15, 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on January 27, 1940.

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Un día desconocido de 1941, en un campo de concentración de la Unión Soviética donde Josef Stalin había enviado a ``los indeseables´´, intelectuales y artistas que consideraba parásitos de su estado totalitario, Isaac Babel, el afamado cuentista judío de sólo dos volúmenes (cuentos de Odesa y Caballería roja) y un puñado de obras de teatro, guiones cinematográficos y relatos dispersos. Los perpetradores de las infames purgas stalinistas había prometido liquidarlo a como diera lugar, a él y a varios escritores judíos mas incluyendo al asombroso Pinhas Kahanovich, autor de la familia Mashber. La personalidad de Babel, su estilo, su parquedad, eran vistos con malos ojos. De hecho, su mensaje, allende los niveles de ironía y ambigüedad era comprometido por muy pocos. Su sentencia pues es igual a la de aquel personaje kafkiano, Josef K., hallado culpable nadie sabe bien de que o por qué. Y murió como ese egregio traductor de textos que invento Borges, el tal Jaromir Hladík, que habiendo querido tener más tiempo y tranquilidad para consumar su propia obra literaria, rogó a Dios por un milagro, una extensión de tiempo a su existencia, pero por desgracia no la obtuvo porque la realidad es implacable y nadie tiene derecho a la clemencia.… (más)
 
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Natt90 | 22 reseñas más. | Jun 23, 2022 |
Tanto al evocar la lenta aniquilación de la pequeña burguesía hebraica, como al revivir los episodios de la guerra ruso-polaca en que tomó parte, Isaak E. Bábel (1894 - 1941) despliega su talento desmitificador para descubrir y volver a evaluar los valores humanos individuales en el engranaje de la Historia. Contrasta así con el ingenuo optimismo de la literatura oficial soviética de su tiempo, y no es de extrañar que, arrestado en 1937, muriese en 1941 ante un pelotón de fusilamiento. Valiéndose de la jerga entre cómica y brutal de los cosacos, nos revela un mundo de ecos y sutiles referencias, de inolvidables escenas y personajes que se iluminan con inesperados vuelos líricos y entonaciones fabulísticas.… (más)
 
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Eucalafio | 22 reseñas más. | Oct 9, 2020 |
Crónicas de la experiencia del autor en el conflicto entre Polonia y Rusia en 1919.
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pedrolopez | 22 reseñas más. | Aug 19, 2019 |
Dicen que es muy bueno.
Recomendado por eminencias académicas.
 
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