In this audiobook, you’ll find autobiographical novellas by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—Isaac Babel.
Each one recreates a distinct world that the author preserved in his memory: recollections of childhood and first love, vivid Odessa with its criminal legends, and merciless descriptions of revolutionary Petrograd. Combining Dostoevsky’s compassion with Chekhov’s biting wit, Babel created his own precise, journalist’s viewpoint—and at the same time a lyrical literary style that sets him apart from all other writers of Soviet Russia.
Contents:
My Blue-Rookery Story
First Love
Childhood with Grandmother
In the Basement
Awakening
Di Grasso
My First Fee
Guy de Maupassant
The Road
Ivan-and-Marya