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Red Cavalry

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Zusatztext "One of the great stylistic accomplishments of the 20th century... [and] Mr. Dralyuk’s is simply the best translation available." — The Wall Street Journal   "A classic series of wartime sketches in a translation that emphasizes their lyricism and dark comedy. . . Though the stories are brief and deliver a clear message about the frustrations of battle! Babel's rhetoric is never plainly parable- or fablelike; he uses a blunt realism to sketch out scenes that can have a variety of resonances. Writing about war has changed with the times! but war hasn't! and these stories from nearly a century ago remain grimly current. Short but emotionally deep studies of life during wartime." — Kirkus Reviews  (Starred Review) "Red Cavalry  remains one of the most powerfully detailed and revealing depictions of a legendary people living through one of the most famously violent experiments of the modern age. . . Babel’s characters are stoic yet passionate! savage yet sophisticated! prone to blind! obstinate rage in one moment! and to sensitive reflection and acts of kindness in the next." — MAKE Literary Magazine "Red Cavalry is one of Russia’s great books! up there with Tolstoy! Dostoyevsky! Chekhov! Bulgakov! Turgenev! Gogol! Pushkin! Gorky! Solzhenitsyn. Babel’s brief career is marked by the depth! truth! and vitality of what he was able to complete. Boris Dralyuk’s translation will earn Babel new admirers and place him securely in this canon for readers of Russian literature in English." — Los Angeles Review of Books "Casual violence ('[he] grabbed her hair! bent back her head and smashed her face with his fist') alternates with beauty! sometimes in the same sentence ('We fled without staining our swords crimson with the wretched blood of traitors')… This translation is of the first 1926 edition! before censorship and the author’s own revisions altered the text."  —  Publishers Weekly "Babel’s narrative concision and his ability to shift registers! from the prosaic to the poetic and back! are riveting. . . Babel prefigures the sensibilities of David Simon! juxtaposing grit! gore! humor! and beauty—in a very different kind of ghetto."   — Daniel Berchenko!  Publishers Weekly Staff Pick "Fine writing."  — East-West Review "Babel was a literary chameleon – able to vividly capture the voices and characters he met during the brutal years of the Polish-Soviet War (1919-21)! where nations barely born were fighting over borders soon to be forgotten. The stories here are gory and profane! funny and disturbing! filled with the blood! anguish and up-close horrors of one of the last wars in Europe fought with sabers and horses...  Red Cavalry  is an indictment of the banality of armed conflict through the voices of commissars and idealists! revolutionaries and soldiers alike. It should be required reading in every high school! in every nation where people still think wars are worth fighting."  - Paul Richardson!  Russian Life Magazine  "Isaac Babel’s  Red Cavalry ! now granted an afterlife in Boris Dralyuk’s lyrical and fluid translation…"  - Nirmal Dass!  First Things   Informationen zum Autor Isaac Babel was a short-story writer! playwright! literary translator and journalist. He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war. The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian! he was hugely popular during his lifetime. He was murdered in Stalin's purges in 1940! at the age of 45. Klappentext The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writerThe brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer Zusammenfassung The brutalities a...

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Authors I. Babel, Isaac Babel, Babel Isaac, Boris Dralyuk
Assisted by Boris Dralyuk (Translation)
Publisher Pushkin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 06.11.2014
 
EAN 9781782270935
ISBN 978-1-78227-093-5
No. of pages 224
Series Pushkin Collection
Pushkin Collection
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies

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