What is it about?
Babel's texts with child characters use a special angle to show, a special narration to tell about the unsolvable psychological and social controversies of being a Jew in Russia, at the time of transformation into the Soviet state, with new problems of identity.
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Why is it important?
The child's eye narration is relevant for literature about assimilation, until our days.
Perspectives
This text was developed further in my book "In a Maelstrom. Russian-Jewish Prose 1860--1940. New York-Budapest, CEU Press, 2008.
Dr Zsuzsa Anna Hetényi
Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem
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This page is a summary of: The Child's Eye, October 2009, Stanford University Press,
DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9780804759038.003.0010.
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