Isaac Babel

Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

Essential Stories

Buch

A new selection of Isaac Babel's 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris DralyukIsaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence. These stories take us from the underworld of Babel's native Odessa, city of gangsters and lowlives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War. Selected and translated by the prize-winn… Mehr

CHF 26.90

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

V113: Lieferbar in ca. 20-45 Arbeitstagen

Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dralyuk, Boris

ISBN: 978-1-78227-781-1
EAN: 9781782277811
Produktnummer: 37649414
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H16.3 cm x B12.0 cm x D2.0 cm 226 g
Reihenbandnummer: 12
Gewicht: 226

Über den Autor

Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of 45. Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.