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Red Cavalry
Red Cavalry | Isaac Babel
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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.
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Well this was an interesting collection of stories, written by a participant in the Russian campaign against the newly established Poland in 1920. Serving with a Cossack brigade, Babel documents the campaign from its initial successes to its ultimate failure showing the lives of the participants as they seek to adapt to the changing circumstances, some heroically, some with brutality and cruelty, most venally and opportunistically

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Red Cavalry | Isaac Babel
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If you're looking for a #shortbook you can't do better than the selection at Pushkin Press. They specialise in translation and resurrecting authors who don't recurve enough recognition in the English-speaking world
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LeahBergen And they're pretty, too. 👍🏻 7y
Moray_Reads @LeahBergen always a bonus 👌 7y
Kalalalatja 😍😍😍 7y
saresmoore Truth! And a lovely stack. 7y
DimeryRene Pretty stack! 🌼☀️💛 7y
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