num_pages: 333
description: The vivid, violent stories of a Russian Jewish writer of genius who recalls both Tolstoy and de Maupassant.Isaac Babel, a protégé of Maxim Gorky, served in a revolutionary Cossack regiment and later came to be regarded as a leading proletarian writer. He was arrested in 1936, however, and disc about two years later in a concentration camp. Recollection his first reading of some of Babel's stories Lionel Trilling writes: 'It was obviously the most remarkable work of fiction that has yet come out of revolutionary Russia, the only work, indeed, that I knew of as Harrington it the mark of exceptional talent, even if genius.'
language: English
title: Collected Stories
titlecomplete: Collected Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Jewish, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 2569
publisher: Penguin Books