This spring in Almaty published the first biography of Isaac Babel in Russian, published from under the pen of the German researcher Rainhard Krumm. The excellent written book about destiny of the well-known writer is based on the documents from archives of Russia, Ukraine, USA and Germany, and also on materials of interview with the contemporaries or their children in different cities of USA, France, Switzerland and Russia. The work is not only vision of creation of the writer by the eyes of the foreign researcher engaged with Slavonic studies, but also fascinating narration about life of the people of that epoch and governors ruled sway destinies of these people.

Yesterday author conducted the presentation of the book for the readers of Republican Jewish library. On meeting with Rainhard Krumm gathered the admirers of talent of Babel. Some of them have already read the new book and with impatience waited for presentation to set to the author questions, exciting them. In a result, the presentation has developed into brisk discussion, which rather was promoted by perfect possession of Russian of Krumm himself.

   "They did not let me finish", - regretted Babel at arrest, glancing the unwritten manuscripts. So the creative development of one of the best writers of Soviet Russia and surprising person stopped. Who was Isaac Babel? To him designated the Nobel Prize, he together with Pasternak was thought highly abroad. "The German writers recognized Babel as more known, than Gorky", - gives the fact of a history Rainhard Krumm. "Singer of revolution and Judaism", "symbol of the time, of time of rough changes" - so estimated eminent contemporaries creation of the writer. Isaac Babel distinguished belief in virtue of knowledge, he had exceptional linguistic abilities and rich imagination. These qualities of young Babel at once has noted Maxim Gorky and supported his introduction on a hard way of the writer. The beginning journalist Babel, inquisitive at heart, always was interested in forces, which "move the spiritual life the man". He tried up to the end of life to listen to the inner voice: and on the days of glory, and at the moment of doubts, in foreign country and on a Motherland, which frequently treated him, as the stepson. "He thirst for truth, as others for vodka", - told Mayakovsky about him.

   The ease of a syllable in the description of events is an excellent example for the future historians and journalists: it is possible to make of one line of the guidebook on city of centenary prescription a conclusion and to connect together facts reconstructing an atmosphere, in which lived, dreamed, was sad, tried to understand itself and environmental world the teenager Isaac Babel.

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