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-f...
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Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The firs...
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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 224 ● ISBN 9781782271123 ● Dateigröße 2.2 MB ● Übersetzer Boris Dralyuk ● Verlag Pushkin Press ● Ort London ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2014 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 3401271 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM
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