Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Name: Red Cavalry and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780140449976

ISBN-10: 0140449973

ISBN-13: 9780140449976

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Isaac Babel, Efraim Sicher, David McDuff, David Mcduff, David Mcduff

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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, Babels 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 Babels best-known stories vividly…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Isaac Babel(18941941) was a short-story writer, playwright, and correspondent with the Red Army forces during the Russian civil war. He died in a Soviet gulag in 1941. Efraim Sicherteaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. David McDuffhas translated works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky for Penguin Classics.