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ISBN-10: 0-393-32423-0
ISBN-13: 9780393324235
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York City
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Year: April 2003
Size: 13.46 x 20.57 x 2.79cm
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 340gr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0-393-32423-0
ISBN-13: 9780393324235
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York City
Country:
Year: April 2003
Size: 13.46 x 20.57 x 2.79cm
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 340gr
Binding: Paperback
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One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia.
One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia.
Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the storiesthe whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.
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Before Hunter Thompson there was Isaac Babel 
Before Hunter Thompson ever gave his groundbreaking firsthand account of the Hell's Angels, Isaac Babel rode with the Soviet Red Cavalry (the Bolshevik equivalent of the Hell's Angels). This compilation of short story missives, based on Babel's experiences with Lenin's attempt to bring glory to the revolution, can't be beat. The translation work here is excellent and the stories are as bizarre, beautiful, and sad as you'll find in 20th century literature. Recommended for readers of Russian and Soviet history and early 20th century literature.
Before Hunter Thompson ever gave his groundbreaking firsthand account of the Hell's Angels, Isaac Babel rode with the Soviet Red Cavalry (the Bolshevik equivalent of the Hell's Angels). This compilation of short story missives, based on Babel's experiences with Lenin's attempt to bring glory to the revolution, can't be beat. The translation work here is excellent and the stories are as bizarre, beautiful, and sad as you'll find in 20th century literature. Recommended for readers of Russian and Soviet history and early 20th century literature.
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