Isaac Babel 
Red Cavalry [EPUB ebook] 

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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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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 first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin’s purges in 1940, at the age of 45.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9781782271123 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Translator Boris Dralyuk ● Publisher Pushkin Press ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3401271 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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