Red Cavalry

✍ Scribed by Babel, Isaac

• Book ID: 109477225
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781782271123

✦ Synopsis

Based on Babel’s own diaries that he wrote during the Russo-Polish war of 1920, Red Cavalry is a lyrical, unflinching and often startlingly ironic depiction of the violence and horrors of war. A classic of modern fiction, the short stories are as powerful today as they were when they burst onto the Russian literary landscape nearly a century ago. The narrator, a Russian-Jewish intellectual, struggles with the tensions of his dual identity: fact blends with fiction; the coarse language of soldiers combines with an elevated literary style; cultures, religions and different social classes collide. Shocking, moving and innovative, Red Cavalry is one of the masterpieces of Russian literature.