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THE CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C., Nov. 26, 1969—6-B
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Russian
Writers
BY LENNART PEARSON
Head librarian
Presbyterian College
You Must Know Everything. By Isaac Babel.
283 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1969.
“Modem Russia has always had trouble with
her writers. Her great literature . . . was created
by men who proved to be—most of them, anyway
—a nuisance to the authorities of their time." This
observation by Soviet defector Leonid Vladimi
rov appears in a revealing book called The Russians
(Praeger, 1968). Recall the casualty list: Dostoiev
sky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, and, in more re
cent years, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Sinyasky, and
Daniel and. without necessarily conceding that her
two recent books are “great literature”—even
Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alleluyva.
Isaac Babel also belongs to this honored com
pany, though his name is not well known in the
west since so few of his writings have been avail
able in English. A victim of Stalinist repression,
Babel was arrested in May, 1939, and never heard
from again. You Must Know Everything is a col
lection of his stories written between 1915 and
1937, most of which have been discovered by Babel
scholars in the course of his recent ‘'rehabilita
tion’’ in Soviet Russia.
The stories of Babel, however, are more than
stories; they are stories in the tradition of Chek
hov. The setting is Eastern Europe during a time
of political and social change, and the people about
whom he writes are rabbits and soldiers, wet-
nurses and cart-drivers, pawn-brokers and pros
titutes. The ethnic flavor of some of the stories
is reminiscent of the Yiddish author Sholoni (“Fid
dler on The Road’’) Aleicheni. Almost magically,
however, these cultural trappings fall away as we
recognize enough of ourselves in the vulnerability,
naivete, and cruelty of Babel’s characters to re
spond with feelings of compassion, nostalgia, and
horror. “Shabos Nahamu’’ is a delightful story of
a prankster and a housewife; “The Deserter’’
leaves you shaken.
The stories are short, and the writing is ex
ceptionally taut. “In my youth,’’ Babel relates, “l
thought that the sumptuous must be conveyer! by
sumptuous means. But I was wrong. One must
very often proceed by opposites. I pick and choose
words that are first, significant; second, simple;
and third, beautiful.” Ilya Ehrenburg, friend and
fellow-writer, whose tribute to Babel is included in
this book, recalls that such disciplined writing was
no accident. “Writing was sheer agony for him,
and he would rewrite the same page dozens of
times. It often took him a day to do a quarter of a
page, and even at the best of times he could only
manage half a page.” The results are evident.
The collection has been edited by Babel’s
daughter, Nathalie, who has greatly enhanced the
volume by means of commentary', explanations,
and footnotes. Included is the transcript oof an in
terview with Babel in 1937, which hints at the
nightmarish and inquisitorial character of the
Stalinist era, and also some of the tributes paid to
his art by Russian literary figures at the Moscow
commemoration of his seventieth birthday in 1964.
Perhaps Ehrenburg said it best: “In life he
was particularly interested in the two mysteries
that interest everybody, whatever their age; love
and death." In these stories there is much of both.
Cross Hill
News
BY MRS. SARAH SF.GARS
The comma vty was saddened
by the passing of Albert Dial
in Columbia. Mr. Dial was the
brother of Miss Eleanor Dial
and Mi s. Bill Wightman.
Sgt. James M ore who has
spent the p.e;‘ year in Vietnam
is expected to arrive home early
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin W. rd of
Mountville were among the dinner
guests of Mi.^s Wil! Jones >n
Sunday,
Mis. Hayne W irkman Jr. at
tended the cake cutting for her
year old nephew, Buzzy Payne,
on Saturday iftirnoon. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace
Payne of Clinton.
Gary Beazman has returned
home from tlie Veteran’s Hospi
tal in Columbia.
4 Bethabara Baptist Church will
join the First Baptist Church for
worship services on Sunday
morning after which they will hold
a joint baptismal.
Miss Susan Lewis of Joanna,
the bride elect of William W.
Simpson Jr. of Clinton was given
a miscellaneous shower on Sat
urday night at the home of Mrs.
R. B. Segars. The honoree re
ceived many useful gifts. Hostes
ses, with Mrs. Segars were Mrs.
E. P. Boazman and Mrs. Hayne
Workman Jr.
Mrs. Mackie HortonofClem-
son spent the past weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Austin and
Ernie.
Mr.-,. Alma Hil is a patient in
Laurens District Hospital.
Ernie Segars accompanied by
friends attended the Wofford -
Davidson football game in David
son, N. C. on Saturday.
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