The Odessa Tales

The Odessa Tales
Book cover
Author(s)	Isaac Babel
Original title	Одесские рассказы
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Genre(s)	Short story collection
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The Odessa Tales (Russian: Одесские рассказы) is a collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution. Published individually in magazines throughout 1923 and 1924 and collected into a book in 1931, they deal primarily with a group of Jewish thugs that live in the Moldavanka, a ghetto of Odessa. Their leader is Benya Krik, known as the King.

The short stories were turned into the film Benya Krik in 1926 by Vladimir Vilner.

See also

Novels portal

• Sunset (play)

External links

• Benya Krik at the Internet Movie Database.

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