Odessa Stories

di Isaac Babel (Autore)

Boris Dralyuk (Traduttore)

Pushkin Press, 2018

Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel's pen. From the tales of the magnetic cruelty of Benya Krik - infamous mob boss, and one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - to the devastating semi-autobiographical account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, this collection of stories is considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, Odessa Stories is the first ever stand-alone collection of all the stories Babel set in the city - and includes tales from the original collection as well as later ones.

• Autore: Isaac Babel
• Traduttore: Boris Dralyuk
• Editore: Pushkin Press
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9781782274735

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