Title
Isaac Babel and Hemingway
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Notes Hemingway’s admiration for Babel’s work in his comparison of their lives and writings on war. Meyers discusses similarities in style and subject matter, including use of repetition and irony and emphasis on pain and personal courage. Despite these similarities, Meyers clarifies that the Russian writer was not an influence, since Hemingway had already developed his own modernist aesthetic before reading Babel. Compares interchapters of In Our Time and the beginnings of “In Another Country” and “A Natural History of the Dead” with Babel’s war stories such as “Dolgushov’s Death” and “Salt.”
Published in
Style
Volume
53
Issue
2
Date
2019
Pages
205-214
COinS
Citation
Meyers, Jeffrey. “Isaac Babel and Hemingway.” Style 53, no. 2 (2019): 205-14.