Odessa stories. Babel I.

Isaac Babel is a wonderful Russian novelist of the first half of the twentieth century, the author of the piercing “Konarmia” and the immortal “Odessa stories”, the literary father of the famous Beni Cry. In his works, Babel draws the romantic world of noble thieves and smugglers, talks about his childhood and civil war, which he went with the First Horse Army of Budyonny. A kind of writer’s metaphorical style, an unusual combination of the funny and sad brought to the woman’s wide fame not only in Russia, but also abroad.