The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, (Paperback)

from DRFP

I'll probably get flak for this but I thought these stories very disappointing. The usual great names of short story writing are thrown around in regards to Babel but I fail to see at all why he deserves to be in such company. Some of his early sketches are nice and some of the stories from the R...

from donp

Unfinished since I bought [book:The Complete Works of Isaac Babel]. I tagged this as being for sale/swap, but took it off since the translations are different and I thought it'd be fun to compare.

from DRFP

I'll probably get flak for this but I thought these stories very disappointing. The usual great names of short story writing are thrown around in regards to Babel but I fail to see at all why he deserves to be in such company. Some of his early sketches are nice and some of the stories from the R...

from OmieWise

Some of the most luminous short stories written, and the cavalry stories put Hemingway's pretensions to engagement to shame.

from mewilbur

These are outstanding stories, especially the group entitled "Red Calvary," written by the enigmatic Russian-Jewish master. As a war correspondent for ROSTA, the Soviet news agency, Babel traveled with a group of Cossacks during the Civil War. "Red Calvary" is the fruit of that experience. He was...