{"id":4623,"date":"2016-07-11T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/repeatright.com\/engine\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2018-10-17T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T05:48:08","slug":"babel-isaak-emmanuilovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/babel-isaak-emmanuilovic\/","title":{"rendered":"BABEL, Isaak \u0116mmanuilovi\u010d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1453315804311{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-book&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531588223-e020d87d-f7dd094f-cf635381-89e5a013-28e8&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~<strong>Isaak Babel<\/strong>, Russian journalist &amp; author<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">\u201cGuy de Maupassant\u201d (Manuscript dated \u20181920-1922\u2019, published 1932) <em>The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel<\/em>, ed. Nathalie Babel, trans. Peter Constantine, New York: W.W. Norton &amp; Co., 2002 edition, p. 443; translation also online via <em>Narrative<\/em> magazine.com,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narrativemagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.narrativemagazine.com<\/a> [free registration required]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-plus-circle&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Context&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5a013-28e8&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<p><strong><em>Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to her of style, of an army of words, an army in which every type of weapon is deployed. No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alternative translation<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #243569\">No steel can pierce the human heart so chillingly as a period at the right moment<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translation by British lecturer &amp; Russian translator Max Hayward, cited in the preface of a collection of Babel stories <em>You Must Know Everything: Stories 1915-1937 <\/em>(1969) edited by Nathalie Babel, NY: Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux (p. vii); online via Internet Archives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-search&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; title=&#8221;Source Link&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5a013-28e8&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc7a00\"><strong><em>Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cGuy de Maupassant\u201d (1932) online via <em>Narrative<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narrativemagazine.com\/issues\/spring-2009\/masterpieces\/guy-de-maupassant-isaac-babel\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.narrativemagazine.com\/issues\/spring-2009\/masterpieces\/guy-de-maupassant-isaac-babel<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<h4 class=\"section-title\">Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; el_class=&#8221;Wrapper-Author-Resources&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #b04b04\"><strong>Learn more about Issac Babel <\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Finding Babel<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 2015 documentary <em>Finding Babel <\/em>by David Novak &amp; Roger Waters; website includes a biographical sketch and preview to the documentary: <a href=\"http:\/\/findingbabel.com\" target=\"_blank\">findingbabel.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Hide-and-Seek<\/strong>\u2019 | <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong> \u2013 Author John Updike gives a short synopsis of Babel\u2019s life &amp; writing, and provides an overview of <em>The Complete Works of Isaac Babel<\/em>, edited by Babel\u2019s daughter, Nathalie: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2001\/11\/05\/hide-and-seek-2\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2001\/11\/05\/hide-and-seek-2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Saunders on Babel, Prose Poet of the Grotesque<\/strong>\u2019 (26 May 2006) <strong>NPR Books<\/strong> \u2013 Author George Saunders tells Chris Lehmann why Babel\u2019s Collected Stories is a book that he urges all of his friends to read. Interview, plus an excerpt of Babel\u2019s \u201cThe Story of My Dovecote\u201d; online via NPR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5432052\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5432052<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>The Horror, The Horror<\/strong>\u2019 (8 February 2018<strong>) The New York Review of Books<\/strong> \u2013 Article by Gary Saul Morson: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/08\/isaac-babel-horror-the-horror\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/08\/isaac-babel-horror-the-horror\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>How My Grandmother Met My Grandfather, Isaac Babel<\/strong>\u2019 (2013) <strong>Yiddish Book Center<\/strong> \u2013 Babel\u2019s grandson, Andrei Malaev-Babel, talks about his grandmother and the Babel\u2019s courtship (video &#8211; 5:36) via Yiddish Book Center &amp; YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9zDzlhmmwGU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9zDzlhmmwGU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Checklist of the works of Isaak Babel <\/strong>\u2013 Compiled by <strong>Efraim Sicher<\/strong>, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; includes list of known work in original Russian and translations: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~gfreidin\/Publications\/babel\/BABEL2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~gfreidin\/Publications\/babel\/BABEL2.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018<strong>Prominent Russians: Isaac Babel<\/strong>\u2019 | <strong>Russiapedia<\/strong> \u2013 Government-sponsored <em>Russia Today<\/em> (RT) puts some serious spin on what they describe as \u2018myths\u2019 that Babel \u201ccreated around himself,\u201d including the portions of his autobiography that detail his persecutation by the Soviet secret police. Never mind that Babel was executed in 1939. Modern propaganda 101: <a href=\"http:\/\/russiapedia.rt.com\/prominent-russians\/literature\/isaac-babel\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/russiapedia.rt.com\/prominent-russians\/literature\/isaac-babel\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong><em>Image credit<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: BABEL, Isaak (date unkn.) \u201cIsaak Babel, Russian Journalist &amp; Author (1894-1940) Author: Unknown [Wiki has author listed as \u201c\u0438\u043c\u044f \u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0430 \u043c\u043d\u0435 \u043d\u0435\u0438\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u043e\u201d \u2013 or (roughly), [\u201cI don\u2019t know the name of the author\u201d], Source: \u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0438\u044f \u0438\u0437 \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0432\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0435\u0433\u043e \u043e\u0442\u0446\u0430 \u0441\u043a\u0443\u043b\u044c\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 \u041d\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0437\u0435\u0446\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e [archive of sculptor Naruzetskogo (?)], Licence Art Libre \u2013 OK to redistribute and\/or modify per tems of Free Art License, posted September 2010; online via Wikimedia: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Babel_photo01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Babel_photo01.jpg<\/a> [Repeat Right edit: background, size &amp; clarity]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaak \u0116mmanuilovi\u010d Babel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,63,127,85,106,158],"tags":[37,584,210,34,38,351,457,480,481],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-civil-and-human-rights-advocates","category-commentators-columnists-social-critics-and-pundits","category-journalists","category-playwrights-and-screenplay-authors","category-russian","tag-art","tag-author","tag-books","tag-british","tag-life","tag-literature","tag-spring","tag-words","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/a033eeb328ea803146b5d2738bca278a-e1526040230770.jpg?fit=1120%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YPRD-1cz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}