Word: dovecotes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the 25 stories translated by Max Hayward for this edition were published in Russia during Babel's lifetime, but only a few even begin to approach the lyrical force of such concentrated conceptions as the widely known The Story of My Dovecot, Lyubka the Cossack and Salt. The Jewess, longest story in the book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess...
...candy to South Korean visitors, but when they tried to talk propaganda, American MPs moved them along. Overhead, flocks of doves, of which Koreans are particularly fond, darted about-but even they were involved in the nasty little frontier cold war. The Communists, before releasing them from the dovecot, had carefully trained the birds to perch only on their own green-painted roofs, not on the blue U.N. buildings...