Isaac Babel
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's major short story writers
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781438116198
Subjects: Study guides; Criticism and interpretation; Examinations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-107) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York: Infobase Pub., 2012. Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Biography of Isaac Babel; title: Plot summary of "My first goose"; title: List of characters in "My first goose"; title: Critical views on "My first goose". Patricia Carden on symbolism ; Martin B. Klotz on narrative voice ; Joe Andrew on structure ; Peter Stine on imagery ; Efraim Sicher on estrangement and identity ; Yuri Shcheglov on themes and archetypes; title: Plot summary of "The story of my dovecote"; title: List of characters in "The story of my dovecote"; title: Critical views on "The story of my dovecote". Patricia Carden on education ; Peter Stine on violence ; Hamutal Bar-Yosef on stereotypes and storytelling ; Alice Stone Nakhimovsky on mythmaking ; Efraim Sicher on anti-semitism; title: Plot summary of "The awakening"; title: List of characters in "The awakening"; title: Critical views on "The awakening". Lionel Trilling on education ; Patricia Carden on intellectualism ; James E. Falen on art and nature ; Efraim Sicher on ghetto mentality; title: Plot summary of "Guy de Maupassant"; title: List of characters in "Guy de Maupassant"; title: Critical views on "Guy de Maupassant". Patricia Carden on illusion ; Peter Stine on Babel's despair ; Charles Rougle on the fusion of art and reality ; Victor Erlich on metaliterary elements ; Alexander Zholkovsky on Tolstoy allusions.