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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After asking for recs on Ukrainian  authors - buying the complete works of Isaac Babel. It is nearly 100 years old and over 1k pages. It did have very good reviews but too turgid for me. I will try again though. [/quote]

Did you get the ones with the cover photos where he looks like a sadist? Gave me nightmares in college. [/quote]

Umm,  it is just one huge tome of his collected works. The cover has an obfuscated view of his face wearing John Lennon glasses and an intellectual vibe in sepia tones. Ukrainian Russian Jews experienced so much sorrow and loss during that era, that I would be hard pressed to smile myself.

It is very sad he was murdered as an enemy of the state by Stalin’s fascist death squads. Reading about that will give me nightmares.[/quote]

I love Babel, but I first read him in Russian.  I think you need to have some context to understand what he is writing about, and also some of his very distinct style is getting lost in translation.   Imagine someone writing with a Southern drawl - it's more than an accent, it conveys a certain way of life which will be hard to understand for someone who doesn't know much about US.  [/quote]

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