Isaac Babel (1894-1939) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. Considered the greatest Russian writer of fiction after Chekhov, he was arrested by Soviet authorities in May 1939 and never seen again. Even though Babel's position as a master of world literature is unquestioned, the slow process of literary rehabilitation in his native country only began in 1957, with an edition of his Collected works. Sold out in two days, it was not reprinted for ten years. "You Must Know Everything" collects 19 Babel stories of the period 1915 to 1937 that have never before been translated. Two of the most remarkable stories - "And Then There Were None" and "The Jewess" - have never been published in the original Russian. The title story, part of the famous childhood cycle, is the first fiction Babel wrote; the manuscript came to light while these works were being translated. "Sulak", the final story in this collection, was the next to last published during his lifetime. The remainder of the stories, examples of consistent artistry in varied genres, appeared in forgotten Soviet magazines in the twenties and early thirties and have been unavailable to both Russian and Western readers. Of particular interest is "Sunset", which was to be transmuted into Babel's finest play. In addition to the stories, there are six journalistic pieces from 1918 (reprinted here for the first time) that reflect Babel's distress over the methods and shortcomings of the new Bolshevik regime. The appendices gather a 1937 interview with Babel and recent memoirs and essays by Russian writers - Paustovsky and Ehrenburg, among others. The contents of You Must Know Everything have been collected by Babel's daughter Nathalie. She has also provided annotations and has attempted to evaluate the stories and situate them in relation to the rest of Babel's work. Isaac Babel (1894-1939) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. Considered the greatest Russian writer of fiction after Chekhov, he was arrested by Soviet authorities in May 1939 and never seen again. Even though Babel's position as a master of world literature is unquestioned, the slow process of literary rehabilitation in his native country only began in 1957, with an edition of his Collected works. Sold out in two days, it was not reprinted for ten years. "You Must Know Everything" collects 19 Babel stories of the period 1915 to 1937 that have never before been translated. Two of the most remarkable stories - "And Then There Were None" and "The Jewess" - have never been published in the original Russian. The title story, part of the famous childhood cycle, is the first fiction Babel wrote; the manuscript came to light while these works were being translated. "Sulak", the final story in this collection, was the next to last published during his lifetime. The remainder of the stories, examples of consistent artistry in varied genres, appeared in forgotten Soviet magazines in the twenties and early thirties and have been unavailable to both Russian and Western readers. Of particular interest is "Sunset", which was to be transmuted into Babel's finest play. In addition to the stories, there are six journalistic pieces from 1918 (reprinted here for the first time) that reflect Babel's distress over the methods and shortcomings of the new Bolshevik regime. The appendices gather a 1937 interview with Babel and recent memoirs and essays by Russian writers - Paustovsky and Ehrenburg, among others. The contents of You Must Know Everything have been collected by Babel's daughter Nathalie. She has also provided annotations and has attempted to evaluate the stories and situate them in relation to the rest of Babel's work.
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