Scholar Explores Russian Writer Isaac Babel's World

[@nneevveerrmmoorree]

I read some of Babels short stories in jail (ironically) in 06 This is the only environment where I am bored enough to read . I want to find his short stories again one day...and relive his and my conviction

[@Snafuski]

Babel was a wonderful writer, he can describe people like no other. The warmth of his descriptions is, paradoxically, generated by his ability to maintain the intellectual's distance. I loved The Kiss, di Grassi (the 10 word description of di Grassi's wife is startling "... built like a grenadier ... with a small face at the other end... or something like that) , and Lyubka The Cossack... But they are all worth reading, over and over again... Keep an eye out for the beards and mustaches...

[@invernessfan3017]

I like the Russian short story tradition.