Mann, R.

The Dionysian art of Isaac Babel

Barbary Coast Books, 1994.

Item #24504
ISBN: 0936041080

Paperback,134 pp.

Any first-time reader of Babel’s short stories; struck by the bold metaphors, the rich colors and cruelty of the world which Babel portrays. Yet. studies of Babel's fiction have overlooked one of the primary inspirations for these features of Babel’s fiction — the ancient cults of Apollo and Dionysus. Although a general thematic debt to Nietzsche is com¬monly acknowledged, scholars have failed to look beyond Nietz¬sche’s theories into the concrete detail of classical sources which inspired his philosophy of Apollo and Dionysus.

Price: $25.00