Petersburg Diary

Isaac Babel once said: “A sentence is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a turn—barely felt. The lever must be in the hand and warmed. It must be turned once, not twice.” Exactly in these words lies the secret of his prose—its main distinguishing feature: observation and an inimitable style. Hear it for yourself by listening to the audio version of Isaac Babel’s cycle of essays, “The Petersburg Diary.”