{"product_id":"you-must-know-everything-stories-1915-1937-by-isaac-babel","title":"'You Must Know Everything: Stories 1915–1937' by Isaac Babel","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"189\"\u003eIsaac Babel wrote some of the most compressed and electric prose of the twentieth century.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"560\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"217\"\u003eYou Must Know Everything\u003c\/em\u003e gathers stories written between 1915 and 1937 — the years that span Babel’s rise as a literary star in revolutionary Russia and his eventual disappearance into Stalin’s terror. Edited and annotated by his daughter, \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eNathalie Babel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, the collection traces the range of Babel’s work beyond his famous \u003cem data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"551\"\u003eRed Cavalry\u003c\/em\u003e stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"881\"\u003eThe pieces move between Odessa’s criminal underworld, Jewish life in the Russian Empire, and the strange moral landscapes produced by revolution. Babel’s style is famously paradoxical: brutal events rendered in jewel-like sentences, tenderness appearing in the middle of violence, humour flickering through catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"1061\"\u003eThe stories show why Babel became a legend among writers — and why his work remained dangerous enough that the Soviet state eventually silenced him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168888549459,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-05T185003.999.png?v=1772697075","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/you-must-know-everything-stories-1915-1937-by-isaac-babel","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}