Quotes About Isaac Babel

Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre.

Bolshoy Fontan ("Big Fountain") is one of the largest and most popular coastal resort districts in Odessa.

And have you ever run across a bright and enlivening sun in Gogol—a man from Ukraine?

Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn't a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?

Yes, sir," answered the boatswain, a pillar of red meat overgrown with red hair.

He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940, at the age of 45.

Isaac Babel's controversial collection of stories, Red Cavalry, was put on trial in a Moscow club in 1926. Although the speeches against the book were passionate, Babel himself made an appearance to argue in his defense. The assembled crowd not only acquitted Babel, but also judged his work to be a real service to the revolution.61