Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Name: Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780140449976
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By Isaac Babel

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Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel is a powerful collection exploring themes of war, identity, and humanity through vivid, poignant tales. Set against the backdrop of the Polish-Soviet War, the stories showcase the brutal realities faced by soldiers and civilians alike. Babel's masterful writing captures the complexity of human emotions and moral dilemmas amidst the chaos of conflict.
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This collection offers a vivid and brutal portrayal of war's impact on both soldiers and civilians alike. You might find yourself drawn to the author's masterful storytelling, which combines sharp realism with a poetic touch, exploring themes of violence, identity, and the human condition. If you appreciate profound narratives that delve into historical contexts with keen insight, this book may appeal to you.

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

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One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature.

Throughout his life, Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales, including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled Red Cavalry.

Babel's masterpiece, Red Cavalry, is the most dramatic expression of his dualism. In his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage, Babel heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140449976

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Edited by Efraim Sicher
Translated by David McDuff
Translated by David McDuff

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 298g

Pages: 400

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About the Author

Isaak Babel (1894-1941). Short story writer and playwright who was a correspondent with the Red Army forces of Semyon Budyonny during the Russian civil war. Babel's fame is based on his stories of the Jews in Odessa and his novel Red Cavalry (1926). He was the first major Russian Jewish writer to write in Russian. DAVID MCDUFF was born in 1945 and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. His publications comprise a large number of translations of foreign prose and verse, including contemporary Scandinavian work. His first book of verse, Words in Nature, appeared in 1972. He has translated a number of nineteenth-century Russian prose works for the Penguin Classics series. These include Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot (2004),The House of the Dead, Poor Folk and Other Stories, Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories and The Sebastopol Sketches, and Nikolai Leskov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. He has also translated Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg for Penguin.