The Enigma of Isaac Babel(1st Edition) Biography, History, Context by GregoryFreidin Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5903-8, ISBN: 0-8047-5903-0
"A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his own Russian Jewish childhood, Babel has be ..."
A Coat of Many Colors(First Edition) Osip Mandelstam and His Mythologies of Self-Presentation by GregoryFreidin Paperback, 450 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-26916-3, ISBN: 0-520-26916-0
"For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. To respond to it meant to fashion from the available cultural and personal material a mythic self, one that could serve both as the organizing subject for poetry and as an object of worshipful adoration. A successful poet like Mandelstam thus became the focal point of a complex cultural phenomenon-perhaps a charismatic cult-that ..."
A coat of many colors [electronic resource]: Osip Mandelstam and his mythologies of self-presentation by GregoryFreidin Hardcover, 450 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-05438-7, ISBN: 0-520-05438-5
"Remember the Greek house: the wife so loved by them all — No, not Helen, the
other — oh how long she embroidered. ... (or "embroidery," in Mandelstam's
pointedly Russified version) — the poem may legitimately be read as
Mandelstam's reply ... 0 But it is equally tempting to read it as a counterpart,
indeed as a Hellenic precedent, that legitimized the return of Mandelstam's Leah
to her father's bosom."
"This Norton Critical Edition is based on Peter Constantine’s incomparable translations, which are introduced and annotated by the renowned Babel scholar Gregory Freidin. Isaac Babel’s work has left an indelible mark on modern literature. The scope of this Norton Critical Edition surpasses that of any other Babel paperback edition and includes his fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, plays, and political writings together with the context ..."
"What does the Congress do? How does it do it? Is the Congress up to the challenges ahead? This primer offers students an introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. It explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, and examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government."
"... Major Viktor Gogolev publicly announces that there are no orders to shoot A
Moscow City Soviet Deputy announces to the crowd that two factories are out on
strike [unconfirmed] and People's Deputy Telman Gdlian has been arrested. A
group of demonstrators leaves for the White House. A large concentration of
military personnel is observed in the vicinity of the White House. Ruslan
Khasbulatov has announced that the Presidium of th ..."
A Coat of Many Colors Osip Mandelstam and His Mythologies of Self-Presentation by GregoryFreidin Published 1987 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-34519-2, ISBN: 0-585-34519-8
The Enigma of Isaac Babel Biography, History, Context by GregoryFreidin Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2009 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-7333-1, ISBN: 0-8047-7333-5
"A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939. Made famous by Red Cavalry, a book about the Russian civil war (he was the world's first "embedded" war reporter), another book about the Jewish gangsters of his native Odessa, and yet another about his own Russian Jewish childhood, Babel has be ..."