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Red Cavalry Isaac Babel Nathalie Babel Peter Constantine Michael Dirda Books

A great translation! Better than a lot of the translations of Babel out there.


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Red Cavalry Isaac Babel Nathalie Babel Peter Constantine Michael Dirda Books Reviews

Beautiful, sharp, powerful stories. A shame Babel isn't more widely read - and taught - in the U.S. (Red Calvary would be an excellent addition to world literature curricula at the advanced high school level - the stories are thrilling, and there is so much here to learn about the history of Russia's civil war.)
Babel weaves in and out between the real and the surreal--between what he sees and what he thinks and dreams. He is unapologetic about the brutality and terror he sees and delivers.
Had to read the book for class, and it was a relatively easy book. Considering the context behind the book, it is extremely enlightening and the book itself is an important piece of history. I recommend it.
It takes a little time to adjust to Russian writing. Babel writes in short, choppy and sharp sentences that score point after point with the reader. He paints pictures that are clear and vivid and he opens the reader to feel the scene. This is very interesting stuff because he doesn't tell you how to feel, you just will feel.

I believe this work is important because it gives a good look at the early Soviet psyche. This is like seeing a teenage thug before he becomes the gangster.

Read and savor. If you consider yourself a reader but haven't read Babel---start here.

Chris Reich, TeachU.com
During the Russian-Polish War 1919-1921, Isaac Babel was a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army. The first half of this book contains short stories, bringing the horror of war into focus. Babel describes the Polish towns, the Cossacks and Red Cavalry battles, the shteles and pogroms against the Jewish population. A true nightmare of destruction and violence, but written with clarity and insight. Very well done, a fine collection of short stories, gruesome as they are.

The second half is made up of diary entries and sketches for the coming book. A really excellent writer, Babel was killed in Stalin’s Great Purge, in 1940.

Recommended.
I'm liking the Red Cossacks despite the fact that I abhor their cause and am glad they were defeated in their intention to invade Europe. Babel has sympathy, interest, and a wicked sense of humor.
A very good description of the Polish Soviet war in the early years of Soviet Russia. The stories are short, many article length (as they were originally intended for many of them). The author goes into the horror of war and its effects on the people who live or rather survive in this environment, both the soldiers and the "civilians". The author explores the descent of his characters into the moral abyss of brutal war. Babel also does not shy of showing faults in the communist party--even though he was an ardent communist. He runs afoul the thought police and ends up in prison and eventually executed by the Soviet government. (Though probably taking the wife of the head of the NKVD as a lover did not help).

I found the read fairly quick read as the writer is a very gifted writer and this is a good translation. The short (sometimes very short) individual stories lend itself to part time reading or reading while you wait say in a doctor's office. The book is very thoughtful and thought provoking.
A great translation! Better than a lot of the translations of Babel out there.