My First Fee

By Isaac Babel

1925

First Published

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184

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5H37M

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Après l'arrestation de Babel en 1939, un interdit absolu a pesé sur l'homme et sur son oeuvre. Son nom fut banni des manuels et des encyclopédies, ses écrits devinrent introuvables. De là vient que les dix-sept récits recueillis dans le présent volume s'étendent sur toute la vie littéraire de Babel.Comme tous ses écrits déjà connus, ils sont nourris d'expériences vécues, mettent en scène des personnages réels. Rien ici d'inventé, dirait-on, rien d'imaginaire ; et cependant, à travers la diversité des thèmes, la présence incomparable de Babel affirmée partout, composé unique de précision, de densité, d'émotion et d'humour.

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Author

Isaac Babel

Author · 15 books

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 1894 - 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of my Dovecote and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Isaak Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge due to his longterm affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of May 15, 1939. After "confessing", under torture, to being a Trotskyist terrorist and foreign spy, Babel was shot on January 27, 1940. The arrest and execution of Isaak Babel has been labeled a catastrophe for the world of literature.