Red cavalry and other stories
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Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red Cavalry'. Babel's masterpiece, 'Red Cavalry' is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.
Main title:
Red cavalry and other stories / Issac Babel ; edited by Efraim Sicher ; translated by David McDuff.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books.
Collation:
400 p. ; 20x13x2 cm.
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Notes:
Paperback. B-format paperback.
Biography/History:
Isaak Babel (1894-1941). Short story writer and playwright who was a correspondent with the Red Army forces of Semyon Budyonny during the Russian civil war. Babel's fame is based on his stories of the Jews in Odessa and his novel Red Cavalry (1926). He was the first major Russian Jewish writer to write in Russian.
ISBN:
9780140449976 (pbk)0140449973 (pbk)
Dewey class:
AF
Local class:
891.734
Language:
English
BRN:
243589
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