Red Cavalry / Isaac Babel ; edited by Nathalie Babel ; translated with notes by Peter Constantine ; introduction by Michael Dirda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Contributor:

Babel, Nathalie.

Constantine, Peter, 1963-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Konarmii͡a. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Russian literature.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

320 pages: illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2003.

Summary:

"One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks, peasants, and shtetl-dwellers; and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to figure out his role in the new Russia.".

"Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; additional Red Cavalry stories; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories - the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

The Red Cavalry stories

The Red Cavalry cycle : additional stories

A letter to the editor

Diary

Sketches for the Red Cavalry stories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Translation of: Конармия.

ISBN:

0393324230

9780393324235

OCLC:

51454502