Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Illustrations 6
4. Note on References and Translations 8
5. Acknowledgments 9
6. Introduction 11
7. 1 / Isaak Babelʹ: A Brief Life 29
8. 2 / Reference and Interference 85
9. 3 / Babelʹ, Bialik, and Others 108
10. 4 / Midrash and History: A Key to the Babelesque Imagination 129
11. 5 / A Russian Maupassant 151
12. 6 / Babelʹ’s Civil War 170
13. 7 / A Voyeur on a Collective Farm 208
14. Bibliography of Works by Babelʹ and Recommended Reading 228
15. Notes 252
16. Index 289