Babel in context: a study in cultural identity
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Brighton MA (USA)
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Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. 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.
