Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

Essential Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

169 kr

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Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence.These stories take us from the underworld of Babel's native Odessa, city of gangsters and low-lives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War. Selected and translated by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk, this collection captures the irreverence, passion and coarse beauty of Babel's singular voice.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-08
Mått129 x 198 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePushkin Classics
Antal sidor256
FörlagPushkin Press
ISBN9781805332831
ÖversättareBoris Dralyuk

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Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of forty-five.Boris Dralyuk is the translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov and other authors. A widely published poet and critic, he is the author My Hollywood and Other Poems (2022), and is the recipient of the 2022 Gregg Barrios Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and of a 2024 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa and is the editor-in-chief of Nimrod International Journal.