Odessa Stories
- Authors
- Babel, Isaac
- Publisher
- Pushkin Collection
- Tags
- classics
- Date
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolution.
Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature, this is the first ever stand-alone collection of all Babel's narratives set in the city, and includes the original stories as well as later tales.