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Isaak Babel

イサーク・バーベリ　/　いさーく・ばーべり

Translator from Russian Empire

July 13, 1894 – January 27, 1940　・　Odesa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire

Kherson Governorate
translator
journalist
screenwriter

My Take

Babel is the kind of writer I keep returning to precisely because he refused to pad. Red Cavalry and the Odessa Stories pack a whole moral universe into sentences you could fit on a postcard, and that compression is harder than any sprawling epic. What moves me most is the tension in him: the cool, almost clinical eye of someone trained to think systematically, set against the warmth and chaos of his native Odesa. Knowing he was killed at forty-six under Stalin makes every spare line feel like a small act of defiance. I'd rather read one page of Babel than a shelf of louder authors.

Overview

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 30 June] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry".

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Isaak Babel
Name (Japanese): イサーク・バーベリ
Reading: いさーく・ばーべり
Born: July 13, 1894 – January 27, 1940
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Horse
Origin: Odesa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: translator / journalist / screenwriter / playwright / writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Red Cavalry	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA

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