A Study Of Temporal And Spatial Characteristics Of Babel’s Short Stories

Issac Babel was a Russian Jewish writer whose work focused on the social realities of the Soviet Union in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries,exploring themes such as war and human identity.His short stories,The Story of My Dove’s Den in Odessa,the Cavalry,reflect Babel’s concern with time and space Based on Bakhtin’s theory of space-time body,this paper discusses the types of space-time body in Babel’s short stories and their ideological implications by using the methods of social historical criticism and textual close reading.The paper is divided into five parts.The introduction part sorts out the research status of Babel’s works at home and abroad,expounds Bakhtin’s theory of space-time body and the significance of the topic.The first chapter discusses the establishment and change of home space and time in the work.The first section analyzes the basic function of Odessa’s home space and time body and its organizing plot,and specifically analyzes the space and time form of home in the text’s fundamental space and time body,which is the unity of place and the convergence of three times,so as to show the construction process of home space and time body.The second section analyzes the overturning of the time and space of the homeland through the narration and presentation of the external destructive force and the hero’s self-escape.The third section shows the happy and painful childhood memories of the hero through the elaboration of the establishment and change of the time and space of the homeland.The second chapter discusses the road space-time body in the work and the construction of the life path shown by the hero in the road space-time body.In the road space-time body,the growth process and the change of character and destiny of the hero are highlighted,and the social reality is also displayed.At the same time,the road space-time body also contains the meeting space-time body of the hero and different groups Under the common influence of various ideologies,the meeting of the identity of the characters leads to the thinking and exploration of their way of life.The third chapter combines Bakhtin’s space-time body and carnival theory to analyze the square space-time body and carnival narrative in Odessa and cavalry army This paper discusses the carnival space and time field,taking the war and the Jewish settlement of Moldavanka as an example to elaborate on the manifestation of the square space and time body,and focuses on the carnival characters in the square space and time body,and focuses on the analysis of the carnival characteristics reflected by the cavalry soldiers and the Jewish Mafia.The fourth chapter discusses the connotations of Babel’s novel space-time characteristics Babel’s life in the late 19 th century early20 th century the Soviet union,has experienced the baptism of war Mr.Su,the turbulent social reality mirror miraculously appear in his works Writer of the novel’s space-time body contains the rich connotations,reflecting the writers writing and profound thinking of human nature of suffering.