Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Isaac Babel - Author
David McDuff - Translator
David McDuff - Introduction by
ISBN 9780140449976 | 400 pages | 31 Jan 2006 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fiction of the great Russian-Jewish writer
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From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fiction of the great Russian-Jewish writer
One of the most powerful short-story writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Babel expressed his sense of inner conflict through disturbing tales that explored the contradictions of Russian society. Whether reflecting on anti-Semitism in stories such as “Story of My Dovecote” and “First Love,” or depicting Jewish gangsters in his native Odessa, Babel’s eye for the comical laid bare the ironies of history. His masterpiece, “Red Cavalry,” set in the Soviet-Polish war, is one of the classics of modern fiction. By turns flamboyant and restrained, this collection of Babel’s best-known stories vividly expresses the horrors of his age. “Amazing not only as literature but as biography.” —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic.” —James Wood, The New Republic Introduction EARLY STORIES Old Shloyme Ilya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofyevna Shabbos Nakhamu 'AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL' STORIES Childhood. At Grandmother's The Story of My Dovecot First Love In the Basement Awakening Di Grasso Guy de Maupassant The Journey RED CAVALRY Crossing the Zbrucz The Catholic Church in Novograd A Letter The Konzapas Commander Pan Apolek The Sun of Italy Gedali My First Goose The Rebbe The Way to Brody The Theory of the Tachanka The Death of Dolgushov Kombrig 2 Sashka Christ The Life Story of Pavlichenko, Matvey Rodionych The Cemetery innn Kozin Prishchepa The Story of a Horse Konkin Beresteczko Salt Evening Afonka Bida At St Valentine's Squadron Commander Trunov The Ivans A Sequel to the Story of a Horse The Widow Zamoœæ Treason Czesniki After the Battle The Song The Rebbe's Son Argamak ODESSA STORIES The King How It was Done in Odessa Justice in Brackets Lyubka Kózak The Father Sunset The End of the Almshouse Karl-Yankel NOTES TEXTUAL NOTES APPENDIX Lionel Trilling's introduction o the first English translation (1955) of Isaac Babel's Collected Stories |
