RED CAVALRY

Based on Babel's own diaries that he wrote during the Russo-Polish war of 1920, Red Cavalry is a lyrical, unflinching and often sta rtlingly ironic depiction of the violence and horrors of war. A classic of modern fiction, the short stories are as powerful today a s they were when they burst onto the Russian literary landscape nearly a century ago. The narrator, a Russian-Jewish intellectual, s truggles with the tensions of his dual identity: fact blends with fiction/ the coarse language of soldiers combines with an elevated literar...[Read more]