The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s "Odessa Stories"

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Abstract

Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is well known for his celebration of Odesa as a hedonistic site of comic epic gangsters. Yet this common characterization in Russian literary critism of Babel as an "Odes(s)a writer" is based on a cultural myth that too often cites Babel as evidence.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa
Subtitle of host publicationA Case Study of an Urban Context
EditorsMirja Lecke, Efraim Sicher
PublisherAcademic Studies Press
Chapter8
Pages193-221
Number of pages29
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9798887192574
ISBN (Print)9798887192567
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameUkrainian Studies
PublisherAcademic Studies Press

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