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Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Isaac Babel

Paperback | Pages: 369 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 492 Users | 29 Reviews

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Title	:	Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Author	:	Isaac Babel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 369 pages
Published	:	July 7th 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1926)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Jewish. War

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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 to Philip Roth.

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Original Title:	Red Cavalry and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
ISBN:	0140449973 (ISBN13: 9780140449976)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.98 From 492 Users | 29 Reviews

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Not cottoning to this edition/translation, totally subjective as I don't read Russian. It just feels off. Putting it aside for the Constantine from Norton.

This is "classic" stuff but I just couldn't get into it. The writing is a little on the precious side for me. FULL DISCLOSURE: I didn't finish it, and therefore decline to say yeah or nay in terms of stars.

I heard about "Red Cavalry" some years ago, and got the book in order to read it. However, while I enjoyed that portion, I liked the tales of the gangsters and characters of Odessa's Jewish slum even more.

I had really high expectations for this book and although there were few good stories here and there, I was disappointed at the end. Apart from its historical value, I think its literary merit is overrated.

This 1926 classic was written in the early 1920s and focused on the ravages ofthe Polish-Russian war. One of the first portrayals of the bitter hardship for theRussian people. It was so ruthless a depiction that in 1933 Stalin banished Babel'swork. Very remarkable.

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 1901 - 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote, and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry."

I had really high expectations for this book and although there were few good stories here and there, I was disappointed at the end. Apart from its historical value, I think its literary merit is overrated.