Volume 44, Number 6 · April 10, 1997
Laughter in the Dark
By David Remnick
At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel
by A.N. Pirozhkova
Steerforth Press, 171 pp., $22.00
If Saint Peter should ever locate the keys to the Lubyanka and release all the writers slaughtered there, the only shade in the procession likely to be wearing a smile would be Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel. As his second wife, Antonina Pirozhkova, tells us, 'Babel ascribed great importance to merriment.'
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