The title of this collection, Odessa Stories might be somewhat confusing, as it includes more stories than the ones originally known as the Tales of Odessa.
(Illustrations to Babel’s Odessa Stories by G.G. As Comrade Babel had access to secret files of the police, he was well informed about Jewish banditism in Odessa. With 'Odessa Stories', Isaac Babel took me to the legendary city of Odessa, the mythical city of Rogues and Schnorrers on the coast of the Black Sea – Fascinated, I listened to the beguiling, mirthful and ironic voice of the narrator ‘with glasses on his nose and autumn in his heart’, depicting the feisty local life in the rambunctious Moldavanka, the tough and sinful district where Babel used to live, a Jewish gangsters’ paradise. Thus, began my life, full of thought and merriment.
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