Odesa
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- Author: Babelj Isak
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 68257
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Odesa
Babelj Isak
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Isak Babelj: Odesa
Odesa, in addition to its loudest spokesman, Isak Babelj, was also an inspiration to other great writers: Pushkin, Gogol, Mickiewicz, Iljf i Petrov, Oleša... to mention only the most famous ones who created a new literary expression there, and even a peculiar language, a kind of mixture of Russian, Ukrainian, Moldavian and Yiddish enriched with street speech and of the city's criminal milieu. Babelj writes favorably and movingly about Odessa criminals, not because he sympathized with them, but simply because he was looking for the truth about the man and his deeds, including his evil. This "master of the short story" wrote richly and refined in expression and stingy in scope, lyrically tender and relentless and sharp, as if he were not writing with a pen, but with a scalpel. He said about his way of writing: "There must be only one, at most two adjectives next to a noun, everything else is superfluous... The clarity and strength of the style is not that there is nothing more to add to the sentence, but that nothing can be removed from it."
"Clarity and strength" from his ingenious stories was transferred to life by Babelj, not accepting the usual rules of the game, not wanting to write according to the directives of the Party. Because of this attitude, "Babel's end was predictable", Vladimir Gerić writes in the extensive afterword, and as a special feature of this edition, we highlight the translation by Gustav Krklec and "twelve original drawings by M. Tartaglia" from the Odessa edition from 1930. .
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- Author: Babelj Isak
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Year of publication:2014
- Place of publication:Koprivnica
- Pages:141
- Dimensions:13x19 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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