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CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS

REVUE CANADIENNE DES SLAVISTES

Centenary oflsaak Babel

Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1-2 March-June 1994

Canadian Association of Slavists Association canadienne des Slavistes




Managing Editor EDWARD MOZEJKO University of Alberta

Assistant Editor Book Review Editor GUST OLSON OLEH S. ILNYTZKYJ

University of Alberta University of Alberta

Assistant Book Review Editor NATALIA PYLYPIUK University of Alberta

Associate Editors: Evelyn Harden, Simon Fraser University. Myroslav Shkandrij, University of Manitoba. George Thomas, McMaster University. Christine Worobec, Kent State University. Senior Advisory Board: Peter Brock, University of Toronto. J. W. Dyck, University of Waterloo. Zbigniew Folejewski, University of British Columbia. J. L. H. Keep, University of Toronto. H. Gordon Skilling, University of Toronto. Gleb ¿ekulin, University of Toronto.

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Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1-2 March-nJune 1994


An Interdisciplinary Journal Devoted to Central and Eastern Europe

Centenary oflsaak Babel INTRODUCTION vii

Ä.L. Busch, Allan Reid, Guest Editors

I. BABEL'S LIFE Isaak Babel: A Chronology 1

Efraim Sicher

The Trials of Isaak: A Brief Life 7 Efraim Sicher

IL RED CAVALRY/KONARMIIA The Paradox of Red Cavalry 43

David K. Danow

The Visible Idea: Babel's Modelling Imagery 55 Zsuzsa Hetenyi

Isaak Babel's "Cemetery at Kozin" 69 Joost van Baak

Itinerary map: Red Cavalry and Diary 88

III. BEYOND THE FRONT Isaak Babel, Author of Guy de Maupassant 89

Alexander Zholkovsky Art and Reality: A Note on Isaak Babel's Metaliterary 107

Narratives Victor Erlich

The Underworld of Benia Krik and I. Babel's Odessa Stories 115 Boris Briker

IV. VOICES FROM RUSSIA INTERVIEWS 'Apropos of Babel's Third Life'- G A. Belaia ( 135); 135

'On Reinterpreting Red Cavalry'- LA. Esaulov (142); 'On Reinterpreting Red Cavalry in Light of Chassidism (Justifying the Revolution)' - M.P. Odesskii and



D.M. Fel'dman (148); 'Babel and the Revolution'- V. G. Vozduizhenskii (154); ADDENDUM: Textological Issues Surrounding Babel's Works: The Possibility for a New Approach'- D.M. Fel'dman (158)

MEMOIR Pirozhkova's Memoir of Babel: Introduction 161

Anne Frydman Years at His Side (1932-1939) and Beyond 169

A.N. Pirozhkova

REVIEW ARTICLE

Studies in Czech Sociolinguistics 241 Gary H. Toops

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert H. McNeal, Stalin: Man and Ruler [T. Yedlin] 251

Michael Confino, Société et mentalités collectives en Russie sous V Ancien Régime [J. Guy Lalande] 252

Annette Huwyler-Van der Haegen, Goncarovs drei Romane - eine Trilogie? [Natalia Wilson] 253

Robert Service, Lenin: A Political Life. Volume II: Worlds in Collision [R.C. Elwood] 254

A.D.P. Briggs, Pushkin: Eugene Onegin W. J. Leatherbarrow, Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

[Paul Morris] 256

Paul Bushkovitch, Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [Peter Rolland] 257

Julian W. Connolly, Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Seifand Other [Rolf Hellebust] 259

A.A. Donskov, ed., Na putiakh izgnaniia: Andrei Nikolaevich Donskov vspominaet [Nicholas Tyrras] 260

John Fennell, Edgar Hösch, Ludolf Müller, Andrzej Poppe, eds., Russia Mediaevalis, Tomus VII, 1 [Peter Rolland] 261

George S.N. Luckyj, Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century. A Reader's Guide [Natalia Burianyk] 262

Mile Mamie, Temelji hrvatskoga pravnog nazivlja [Anto KneZevic] 264



Michael Oleksa, Orthodox Alaska: A Theology of Mission [Greg Poelzer] 265

Nanci Adler, Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement [Susan Ingram] 266

M.M. Bakhtin, Toward a Philosophy of the Act [Charles Lock] 267

Ellen Chances, Andrei Bitov: The Ecology of Inspiration [RolfHellebust] 269

Cesare G. De Michelis, La Valdesia di Novgorod: "Giudaizzanti" e prima riforma (sec. xv) [T. Allan Smith] 270

William Edgerton, ed., Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoy ans in Soviet Russia [Heather Coleman] 271

Eran Fraenkel and Christina Kramer, eds., Language Contact - Language Conflict [Zoya Valkova] 272

Michael Frentzel, Postwitzscher Tauf Stein oder Christliche und einfalltige Teutsch-Wendische Predigt von der Heiligen Taufe. Budisin: Andreas Richter, 1688 [Gunter Schaarschmidt] 274

Helena Goscilo, ed., Fruits of her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture [Catriona Kelly] 275

Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History [Anto KneZevic] 277

Cyril Korolevsky, Metropolitan Andrew (1865-1944) [John-Paul Himka] 278

Walter Koschmal, Perspektiven sorbischer Literatur [Gunter Schaarschmidt] 280

David Leviatin, Prague Sprung: Notes and Voices from the New World [Peter Petro] 282

Michael McFaul and Sergei Markov, eds., The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs [Robert V. Daniels] 283

Cathy Popkin, The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol [C.J.G. Turner] 284

Lucjan Suchanek, ed., Emigracja i tamizdat [Edward Mozejko] 285 Jan Zaprudnik, Belarus: At a Crossroads in History

[John Stanley] 286



I. Babel', Chetyre rasskazy/I. Babel1 Four Stories, A.B. Murphy, ed. I. Babel', KonarmiialL Babel's Red Cavalry, Christopher Luck, ed.

[Peter Rolland] 287

M. Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog [Zina Gimpelevich] 288

Ben Ekloff, John Bushneil and Larissa Zakharova, eds., Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 [Robert H. Johnston] 288

Barbara Alpern Engel, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work and Family in Russia, 1861-1914 [Christine Johanson] 289

Theodore H. Friedgut, Iuzouka and Revolution, Volume 2 [N.G.O. Pereira] 291

Daniel J. Goulding, ed., Five Filmmakers: Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabó, Makavejev [Marek Haltof] 292

János Mátyás Kovács, ed., Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe [Stefania Szlek Miller] 293

Marina Ledkovsky, Charlotte Rosenthal and Mary Zirin, eds., Dictionary of Russian Women Writers [Barbara T. Norton] 294

Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History [Anto KneZevic] 295

Anastasia Posadskaya, ed., Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism [Sibelan Forrester] 297

Grazyna Stachówna, Roman Polanski ijego filmy [Marek Haltof] 298

Hans- Joachim Torke and John-Paul Himka, eds., German- Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective [Lenka Rovna] 299

Ze'ev Wolfson (Boris Komarov), The Geography of Survival- Ecology in the Post-Soviet Era [Robert N. North] 300



Contributors JoosT van Baak is professor of Russian language and literature at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He has authored several articles on Babel, as well as a monograph: The Place of Space in Narration. A semiotic approach to the problem of literary space. With an analysis of the role of space in I. E. Babel's «Konarmiia» (Rodopi, 1983). His current research interests include the typology and history of Russian literary world pictures and chronotopes (the house, the north, among others).

Boris Briker is Assistant Professor of Russian at Rutgers University. He writes exten- sively on twentieth-century Russian literature and has published studies on Aksenov, Iskander, Bulgakov, Babel, H'f and Petrov, and humour in Soviet culture.

David K. Danow is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Riverside. His major publications include: The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin (1991); The Dialogic Sign: The Major Novels ofF.M. Dostoevsky (1991); The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque (1995). He is also author of numerous articles (more than forty) on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian and comparative literature; poetics and theory of literature; literary semiotics and semiotics of culture.

Victor Erlich is Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He has authored a number of studies devoted to the 1920s, including a monograph on the Formalists, and "Color and Line: Notes on the Art of Isaac Babel" in Isaac BabeV (ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 1987). A recent publication is Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition. Harvard University Press, 1994.

Anne Frydman teaches literature at Johns Hopkins University and has translated three books of fiction by Sergei Dovlatov. Her acquaintance with Babel's widow, A.N. Pirozhkova, began in the late 1960s and co-dates her strong interest in Babel's works. Her article, 'The Murder of Isaac Babel" {Dissent [1991]), helped purvey to Western readers the findings of V. Shentalinskii's study of Babel's arrest, interrogation and execution.

Zsuzsa Hetenyi is Professor of Russian at ELTE University in Budapest and has a particular interest in Lotman, semiotics, and Babel, about whom she has written several articles.

Efraim Sikher teaches Russian, English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His most recent book, Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution: Writers and Artists Between Hope and Apostasy, is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. Among his other books and essays is Style and Structure in the Prose oflsaak Babel' (Slavica, 1986), incorporating the most comprehensive biblio- graphies of works about and by Babel. His annotated collections of Babel's prose Detstvo i drugie rasskazy (Biblioteka Aliia, 1979) and Peterburg 1918 (Ardis, 1989) have been seen as definitive editions.

Gary Toops is Assistant Professor of Russian at Wichita State University. His interests include Slavic linguistics; syntax and semantics; Germano-Slavic language contact; Comparative grammar; Sorbian; Causativity, Secondary imperfectivization, Evidentiality, Loans/Caiques in Russian, Bulgarian, Czech and Upper Sorbian

Alexander Zholkovsky is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. His recent books include Bluzhdaiushchie sny i drugie raboty (Moscow, 1994), Text Counter Text: Rereadings in Russian Literary History (Stanford, 1994), BaõeAb/Babel (Moscow, 1994; co-author Mikhail Yampolsky).



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