Iaac Babel
Kỵ Binh Đỏ Cuốn này, mới có bản dịch tiếng Anh, mới, theo tờ TLS. Trên Tin Văn có giới thiệu Babel. Đọc bài điểm sách của TLS, thì lại thèm dịch 1 truyện ngắn của ông: “Babel viết, cùng 1 giọng [tone] về những ngôi sao và bịnh lậu”, 1 nhà phê bình nhận xét. Hay như chính Babel phán: Cái dấu chấm câu, thì đúng như 1 cái dùi lửa, chọc thủng tim bạn, nếu đặt đúng chỗ! Style, Isaak Babel claimed, is "an army of words, an army in which all types of weapon are on the move. No iron spike can pierce the human heart as icily as a full stop deployed at the right moment". Isaac Babel and his Daughter I was filled with regret when I first discovered Isaac Babel's stories in 1975 or thereabouts. I had already written four books as well as stories of my own. Babel's stories were overwhelming. The regret I felt was that I had not read them earlier and been influenced by him. It was Robert Phelps, a writer whose judgment of literature was unerring, w