Isaac Babel

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1894-1940

Gregory Freidin's Publications on Isaac Babel

 
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The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context, ed. Gregory Freidin (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008, forthcoming)

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The Norton Critical Edition. Selected Writings of Isaac Babel (Works, Letters, Contemporary Views, Criticism, Scholarship, and Chronology), trans. Peter Constantine, ed. intro., annot., critical essay, and chrono. G. Freidin (W. W. Norton, 2007, forthcoming)

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Gregory Freidin, A Jew on Horseback: Isaac Babel in Russia and America (Stanford: Stanford UP, forthcoming)

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"Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel: A Chronology," The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, ed. by Nathalie Babel, tr. by Peter Constantine (NY, London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001)

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"Isaak Babel," European Writers: The Twentieth Century (New York: Scribners, 1990)

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"Justifying the Revolution As an Aesthetic Phenomenon: Nietzschean Motifs in the Reception of Isaac Babel (1923-1932)." Nietzsche In Soviet Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994).

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"Babel': Revoliutsiia kak esteticheskii fenomen" (Russian version of "Justifying the Revolution as an Aesthetic Phenomenon," above). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 4 (1993).

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"Between the Stalin Revolution and the West: Isaac Babel's Career in the late 1920s and Early 1930s" (in Russian). Stanford Slavic Studies 4-2, 1991.

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"La 'grande svolta'. L'Occidente e l'Italia nella biografia di I.E. Babel all'inizio degli anni '30." Special issue of Storia contemporanea 6 (1991): Intelletuali e cultura antidemocratica tra le due guerra mondiali.

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"Fat Tuesday in Odessa: Isaac Babel's 'Di Grasso' as Testament and Manifesto," The Russian Review 40, no. 2 (April 1981):101-21. Reprinted, without the final part, in Isaac Babel, ed. and intro. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987)

Babel and Philip Roth: A Video Project

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