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Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Translation and Transliteration xi Introduction Stories That Come True 3 Chapter One City Through the Looking-Glass: Literary Odessa 17 Chapter Two Isaac Babel: Stories That Lie Like Truth 43 Chapter Three Babel's Bildungsroman and Odessan Modernism 74 Chapter Four Reinventing the Self: Valentin Kataev and Yury Olesha 102 Conclusion The Odessan Self 143 Notes Bibliography Index 147 177 191 ...

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