Ukraine
In Spring 2022 this subject of a page needs no rationale, no explanation. Events in Ukraine are happening so fast that the daily crisis overwhelms thoughts and questions about the people, their history, their literature, their foodways, all the warm and living intricacies of what has made them “Ukrainian” and what sustains them today. More will be added in the coming days, weeks, months, and now perhaps years.
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories
PUBLICATION DATE IS JUNE 28, 2022!
A new selection of Isaac Babel’s 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris Dralyuk
Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence.
These stories take us from the underworld of Babel’s native Odessa, city of gangsters and lowlives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War.
Selected and translated by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk, this collection captures the irreverence, passion and coarse beauty of Babel’s singular voice.