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Violent Russian, Victimized Jew: The Double Visions of Isaac Babel; The Complete Works of Isaac Babel

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From: Forward
Date: 20011026
Author:Nissenson, Hugh

Nissenson, Hugh
Forward
10-26-2001
Violent Russian, Victimized Jew: The Double Visions of Isaac Babel; The
Complete Works of Isaac Babel

The English-speaking world owes a debt of gratitude to W.W. Norton for
publishing for the first time in any language the complete works of Isaac
Babel. The volume, which includes all the familiar stories plus less
well-known diaries, journals, plays and screenplays, is edited by his
daughter Nathalie Babel, translated by award-winning Peter Constantine and
introduced, brilliantly, by Cynthia Ozick.

Ms. Ozick compares Babel to Franz Kafka; she calls them the ...

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