Babel' in Context

A Study in Cultural Identity

By:

Efraim Sicher

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Hardback

Series:

Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

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Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centres of east European Jewish culture and all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem.This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel’s work. It looks at Babel’s cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the “Jewishness” of their work.

Author Biography:

Efraim Sicher (PhD Oxford University) is a full professor at Ben-Gurion University, where he teaches comparative literature. He has published a study of Isaac Babel s prose style, Style and Structure in the Prose of Isaak Babel (Slavica, 1986), has edited two volumes of Babel s stories in Russian and one in English, and has edited the complete works of Babel in Hebrew. He has also published numerous books and articles in Russian and comparative literature and is well known in the field of modern Jewish culture.

Release date Australia

October 18th, 2012

Author

Efraim Sicher

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

310

Series

Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

Dimensions

156x234x19

ISBN-13

9781936235957

Product ID

20653128

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