Isaac Babel

Broschiertes Buch

Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

Essential Stories

Übersetzer: Dralyuk, Boris

Beschreibung

'Compact, irreverent, enigmatic, savage and tender... it is impossible to look at the world the same way after reading Babel... one of the enduring jewels of 20th-century Russian literature' - Financial Times

Autor

Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of 45. Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Pushkin Collection
• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 171mm x 122mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781782277811
• ISBN-10: 1782277811
• Artikelnr.: 62808196