Isaac Babel

Red Cavalry

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War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting — few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the fighting up close, Babel is able to find the funny side of war while depicting its bloody side — in all its mesmerising and casual violence. The lyricism and bitterness that characterise the thirty-five short stories of Red Cavalry are stunningly reproduced in this new translation by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.
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170 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
Publisher
Pushkin Press
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    and the margins of communist leaflets were crammed with the crooked lines of Ancient Hebrew verse.
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