Glee
Gabriele Annan, 7 September 1995
1920 Diary
by Isaac Babel, edited by Carol Avins, translated by H.T. Willetts.
Yale, 126 pp., £14.95, June 1995,0 300 05966 3 Show More
by Isaac Babel, edited by Carol Avins, translated by H.T. Willetts.
Yale, 126 pp., £14.95, June 1995,
Collected Stories
by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff.
Penguin, 364 pp., £6.99, June 1995,0 14 018462 7 Show More
by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff.
Penguin, 364 pp., £6.99, June 1995,
“... text has been published. The English version comes with a gripping introduction by the editor, Carol Avins, who produces exactly the information one needs to keep up with the diary entries as they hurtle past. The translation by H.T. Willetts reads like a translation. But the Diary is in note form, and the occasional jolt gives it an extra touch of ... ”
