AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.
How A Russian Maupassant Was Made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel' and the Tolstoy Legacy. Article by Alexander Zholkovsky which links Tolstoy's "After the Ball" to I. Babel's "Guy de Maupassant".
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). From Kuusankosken Kaupunginkirjasto. [A website on the author: Guy de Maupassant.]
The Death of Dolgushov. Short story. Complete translated text on the "Soviet Literature" page.
Jewish Short Stories. Real Audio versions of some Jewish stories,
including several by Babel. From KCRWWW.
Isaak Babel. Konarmia (fragments); Miniatiuri; Odesskie rasskazy; (fragments); Rasskazy. From Maksim Moshkow's site.
Welcom to my Isaac Babel Page. Picture gallery. Chronology. Translations. Publications. By Gregory Freidin, Stanford University.
Babel, Isaak Emmanuelovich. From the "Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers" page.
Babel, Isaak Emmanuillovich. From the Odessa Web site.
Isaak Babel (1894-1941). Brief introduction to his life and work, published by the Kuusankoski Public Library in Finland.
Isaac Babel (born 1894). Very brief introduction by Cambridge Web Design.
Benya Krik. Advertisement from the National Center for Jewish Film. (Movie based on Babel's story of that name.)
Isaac Babel. From Spatacus Educational.
Mikhail Goldenberg. Account of a meeting with Babel's widow in Washington. (In Russian.)
(English Language Sources)
Cossacks and the Soviet-Polish War: An On-line Companion to Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry. Web design by Robert Arjet.
Isaac Babel. A critical biography (49 pp.) by Gregory Freidin. (PDF file).
How a Russian Maupassant Was Made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel' and the Tolstoy Legacy. By Alexander Zholkovsky.
(Russian Language Sources)
Between the Stalin Revolution and the West: Isaac Babel's Career in the late 1920s and Early 1930s. By Gregory Freidin. Standford Slavic Studies, vol.4, Bk.2 (Stanford, 1991).
I. Babel'. Article by V. Shkolvskij.
Babel' as the Marquis de Sade of the Russian Revolution. From the Gallery of M. Gel'man.
Illustrations to Babel's works by Alexander Vaisman: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Photographs:
Isaac Babel Picture Gallery. From Gregory Freidin's site.
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