The Complete Works of Isaac Babel Reprint Edition by Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine
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MURDERERS WHO HAVE YET TO BE CLUBBED TO DEATH
Original title: “Nedobitiye ubiitsy.” First published in Krasnii kavalerist, September 17,
1920, signed “War correspondent for the Sixth Cavalry Division, K. Lyutov.”
HER DAY
Original title: “Yeyo den.” First published in Krasnii kavalerist, September 18, 1920, signed K. Lyutov.
See also 1920 Diary entry for August 3.
VI. 1920 Diary
First full publication in Isaak Babel: Sochineniya v dvukh tomakh, Moscow 1990.
JUNE 3
“Love in the kitchen”: see the Red Cavalry story “Evening.”
“The Bazaar in Zhitomir”: see the Red Cavalry stories “Gedali” and “The Rabbi’s Son.”
JULY 13
Dyakov: see the Red Cavalry story “The Reserve Cavalry Commander.”
JULY 14
Grishchuk: see the Red Cavalry stories “The Tachanka Theory” and “Dolgushov’s Death.”
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko: Appears as Savitsky in the Red Cavalry stories “My First Goose,” “The Commander of the Second Brigade,” “The Story of a Horse,” and “The Continuation of the Story of a Horse.”
JULY 16
“A terrible incident, soldiers’ love”: see “A Hardworking Woman” from the Red Cavalry Cycle.
“If it gets up, then it’s a horse”: see the Red Cavalry story “The Reserve Cavalry Commander,” and “Grishchuk” from The Red Cavalry Cycle.
JULY 18
“The Jewish cemetery outside Malin”: see the Red Cavalry story “The Cemetery in Kozin.”
JULY 19
Nikolai Petrovich Kolesov (also referred to as Kolesnikov in the diary entries for August 3,13, and 18, and in the Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories) appears as Kolesnikov in the Red Cavalry story “The Commander of the Second Brigade.”
JULY 21
“A cemetery, the destroyed house of Rabbi Azrail”: see the Red Cavalry story “The Cemetery in Kozin.”
JULY 23
Prishchepa: See the Red Cavalry story “Prishchepa” and the two sections on Demidovka in Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories (pp. 482-84).
JULY 24
“My tale about the Chinese”: Babels friend Viktor Shklovsky wrote in an essay volume (Gamburgsky shchet, 1928) that throughout 1919 Babel “talked of nothing but two Chinese men in a brothel.” See also the story “Chink” (p. 112).
AUGUST 1
“Our infantry is in the trenches”: See the Red Cavalry story “Afonka Bida.”
AUGUST 2
Korotchayev: See the Red Cavalry story “Dolgushovs Death.”
AUGUST 3
“Budyonny to Kolesnikov and Grishin: Til shoot you!’ ”—see the Red Cavalry story “The Commander of the Second Brigade.”
AUGUST 4
“We have a new division commander, Apanasenko”—appears in the Red Cavalry stories as Pavlichenko. See “A Letter,” “The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko,” and “Czesniki.”
AUGUST 7
“The looting of the church”: See also the Red Cavalry story “At Saint Valentine s.”
“Notrepetit hews acheve 7 semaines”: See also the Red Cavalry story “Berestechko.”
AUGUST 8
“Scorched the pharmacists body with white-hot iron pokers”: See the 1920 Diary entry for August 8.
AUGUST 9
“The tale of how he whipped his neighbor Stepan”: See the Red Cavalry story “The Letter.”
“Shurkas lover is heavily wounded”: See the Red Cavalry story “The Widow.” Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov: Appears as Vinogradov in the Red Cavalry stories “Berestechko” and “After the Battle.”
AUGUST 11
“Must write . .. the life story of Apanasenko”: See the Red Cavalry story: “The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko.”
AUGUST 18
“Interrogation of prisoners”: See stories “Squadron Commander Trunov,” “And Then There Were Nine,” and “And Then There Were Ten.”
“Smashed, smoked-out beehives”: See “The Road to Brody.”
AUGUST 30
“And then there were nine”: See stories “Squadron Commander Trunov,” “And Then There Were Nine,” and “And Then There Were Ten.”
AUGUST 31
Captain Yakovlev: See “The Widow,” “After the Battle,” “Murderers Who Have Yet to Be Clubbed to Death.”
SEPTEMBER 12
“Panic at the train station”: See “The Rabbi’s Son.”
“The nurse’s story”: See “After the Battle.”
VII. Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories First published in Literaturnoe Nasledstvo 74,1965.
VIII. Reports From Petersburg, 1918
FIRST AID
Original title: “Pervaya pomoshch.” First published in Novaya zhizn, March 9, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
HORSES
Original title: “O loshadyakh.” First published in Novaya zhizn,, March 16,1918, under the heading “Diary,” and signed I.B.
PREMATURE BABIES
Original title: “Nedonosku First published in Novaya zhizn, March 26,1918, under the heading “Diary.”
THE DEAD
Original title: “Bitye.” First published in Novaya zhizn, March 29, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
THE PALACE OF MOTHERHOOD
Original title: “Dvorets materinstva.” First published in Novaya zhizn, March 31,1918, under the heading “Diary.”
EVACUEES
Original title: “Evakuirovanniye.” First published in Novaya zhizn,, April 13, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
MOSAIC
Original title: “Mozaika.” First published in Novaya zhizn, April 21, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
QUITE AN INSTITUTION
Original title: Zavedenitse. First published in Novaya zhizn, April 25, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
THE GEORGIAN, THE KERENSKY RUBLES, AND THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER (A MODERN TALE)
Original title: “O gruzinye, kerenkye, igeneralskoi doche.” First published in Novaya zhizn, May 4,1918.
THE BLIND
Original title: “SlepiyeFirst published in Novaya zhizn, May 19, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
THE EVENING
Original title: “ Vecher.” First published in Novaya zhizn, May 21,1918, under the heading “Diary.”
I WAS STANDING AT THE BACK
Original title: “Ya zadnim stoyal” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 7,1918, under the heading “Petersburg Diary.”
A BEAST CAN’T TALK
Original title: “Zver molchit.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 9,1918, under the heading “Diary.”
FINNS
Original title: “Finny.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 11,1918, under the heading “Diary.”
A NEW LIFE
Original title: “Novii byt.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 20, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
AN INCIDENT ON THE NEVSKY PROSPEKT
Original title: “Sluchai na Nevskom.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 27, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
THE MOST HOLY PATRIARCH
Original title: “Svyateishii patriarch.” First published in Novaya zhizn, July 2, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
AT THE STATION: A SKETCH FROM LIFE
Original title: “Na stantsii: Nabrosok s naturu First published in Era 6, July 13,1918.
ON PALACE SQUARE
Original title: “Na Dvortsovoi Ploshchadi.” First published in Zhizn Iskusstva, November 11, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”
THE CONCERT IN KATERINENSTADT
Original title: “Kontsert v Katerinenshtadte.” First published in Zhizn Iskusstva, November 13,1918, under the heading “Diary.”
IX. Reports from Georgia, 1922-1924 AT THE WORKERS’ RETREAT
Original title: “Vdome otdykhaFirst published in Zarya Vostok
a, June 24,1922, signed K. Lyutov.
KAMO AND SHAUMIAN
Original title: “Kamo i Shaumian.” First published in Zarya Vostoka, August 31, 1933, under the heading “A Letter from Batum.” Signed K. Lyutov.
WITHOUT A HOMELAND
Original title: “Bez rodiny.” First published in Zarya Vostoka, September 14, 1922, under the heading “A Letter from Batum.” Signed K. Lyutov.
MOSLEM SEMINARIES AND SOVIET SCHOOLS
Original title: “Medresse i shkola.” First published in Zarya Vostoka, September 14,1922, under the heading “Letters from Ajaria.” Signed K. Lyutov.
TOBACCO
Original title: “Tabak.” First published in Zarya Vostoka, October 29, 1922, under the heading “A Letter from Abkhazia.” Signed K. Lyutov.
GAGRY
Original title: “Gagry” First published in Zarya Vostoka, November 22,1922, under the heading “Abkhazian letters.” Signed K. Lyutov.
IN CHAKVA
Original title: “V Chakve” First published in Zarya Vostoka, December 3, 1922, under the heading “From a Caucasian Diary.”
RENOVATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT
Original title: “Remont i chistka.” First published in Zarya Vostoka, December 14,1922, under the heading “Abkhazian letters.”
PARIS AND JULIET
Original title: “ ‘Parizof i ‘Yuliya ”. First published in Izvestiya Odesskogo Gubispolkoma, March 17,1924. Signed Bab-El.
X. Reports from France, 1935
The following pieces were originally published in Pioner 3,1937, under the heading “A Trip to France.”
THE CITY OF LIGHT Original title: “Gorod-Svetoch.”
FRENCH SCHOOLS Original title: “Shkola vo Frantsii.”
TOWN AND COUNTRY Original title: “Goroda i derevni.”
COURT OF JUSTICE AND PARLIAMENT Original title: “Pravosudiye i par lament”
THE POPULAR FRONT Original title: “Narodniifront”
THE POWER OF MONEY Original title: “Vlastdeneg”
THE RED BELT Original title: “Krasnii poyas”
XI. Stories, 1925-1938
THE STORY OF MY DOVECOTE
Original title: “Istoriya moyeigolubyatni” First published in Krasnayagazeta, May 18, 19, 20,1925, evening edition. Dated 1925.
FIRST LOVE
Original title: “Pervaya lyubov.” First published in Krasnaya gazeta, May 24, 25, 1925, evening edition. Dated 1925.
KARL-YANKEL
Original title: “Karl-Yankel.” First published in Zvezda 7,1931.
THE AWAKENING
Original title: “Probuzhdeniye” First published in Molodaya gvardiya 17-18,1931, under the heading “From the Book The Story of My Dovecote” Dated 1931.
IN THE BASEMENT
Original title: “V podvale” First published in Novii mir 10, 1931, under the heading “From the Book The Story of My Dovecote” Dated 1929.
GAPA GUZHVA
Original title: “Gapa Guzhva ” First published in Novii mir 10, 1931, under the heading “The First Chapter from the Book Velikaya Krinitsa” Dated spring 1930.
KOLYVUSHKA
Original title: “Kolyvushka.” First published in Vozdushniyeputi, Volume 3, New York, 1963.
THE ROAD
Original title: “Doroga.” First published in 30 dnei 3,1932. Dated 1920-1930.
THE IVAN AND MARIA
Original title: “Ivan-da-Mariya ” First published in 30 dnei 4,1932. Dated 1920-28.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Original title: “Gyui de Mopassan” First published in 30 dnei 6, 1932. Dated 1920-22. PETROLEUM
Original title: “Nefts.” First published in Vechernaya Moskva, February 14,1934.
DANTE STREET
Original title: “Ulitsa Dante” First published in 30 dnei 3,1934.
DI GRASSO
Original title: “Di Grasso” First published in Ogonyok 23, 1937.
SULAK
Original title: “Sulak.” First published in Molodoi kolkhoznik 6, 1937.
THE TRIAL
Original title: “Sud” First published in Ogonyok 23,1938, under the heading “From My Notebook.”
MY FIRST FEE
Original title: “Moiperviigonorar.” First published in Vozdushniyeputi, Volume 3, New York, 1963.
XII. VARIATIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS ROAMING STARS: A MOVIE TALE
Original title: “Bluzhdayushchiye zvezdi” First published in Shkval 3,1925. See also the screenplay Roaming Stars.
A STORY
Original tide: “Moi listki. Raskaz I. Babelya” First published in Zhurnal zhurnalov 16,
1917. See also “The Bathroom Window,” of which this is an earlier variant.
INFORMATION
Original title: “Spravka.” First published in the book Izbrannoye, Issac Babel, Moscow, 1966.
THREE IN THE AFTERNOON
Original title: “Tri chasa dnya.” First published in Filologicheskii zbornik, Alma Ata, 1971.
THE JEWESS
Original title: “Evreika.” First published in Novii zhurnal 95, New York, 1969.
XIII. Plays
SUNSET
Original title: Zakat. First published in Novii mir2y 1928.
MARIA
Original title: Mariya. First published in Teatr i dramaturgiya 3,1935.
XIV. Screenplays
ROAMING STARS
Original title: Bluzhdayushchiye zvezdi. First published as the book Bluzhdayushchiye zvezdiy Kino-pechat, Moscow 1926.
BENYA KRIK
Original title: Benya Krik. First published in Krasnaya nov 6, 1926.
THE CHINESE MILL (AN ATTEMPTED MOBILIZATION)
Original title: Kitayskaya melnitsa. First published in Ulbandus Review 1-2, New York, 1978.
NUMBER 4 STARAYA SQUARE
Original title: Staraya Ploshchatd’ 4. First published in Iskusstvo kino 5,1963.
From The Forging of Steel
THE GERMANS IN THE UKRAINE
Original title: Nemtsi na Ukraine. First published in Krasnoarmeyets 9-10, 1938.
IN PETLYURA’S PRISON
Original title: Vtyurmye u Petlyury. First published in Krasnoarmeyets 12,1938.