Red Cavalry - Isaac Babel

Descriere Red Cavalry - Isaac Babel

\nIsaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 - 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry. Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.\n \n \n\n \nRed Cavalry\n \nIn 1920, Babel was assigned to Komandarm (Army Commander) Semyon Budyonny's 1st Cavalry Army, witnessing a military campaign of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. He documented the horrors of the war he witnessed in the 1920 Diary (Конармейский Дневник 1920 года, Konarmeyskiy Dnevnik 1920 Goda), which he later used to write Red Cavalry (Конармия, Konarmiya), a collection of short stories such as Crossing the River Zbrucz and My First Goose. The horrific violence of Red Cavalry seemed to harshly contrast the gentle nature of Babel himself.\n \n \n\n \nBabel wrote: Only by 1923 I have learned how to express my thoughts in a clear and not very lengthy way. Then I returned to writing. Several stories that were later included in Red Cavalry were published in Vladimir Mayakovsky's LEF (ЛЕФ) magazine in 1924. Babel's honest description of the brutal realities of war, far from revolutionary propaganda, earned him some powerful enemies. According to recent research, Marshal Budyonny was infuriated by Babel's unvarnished descriptions of marauding Red Cossacks and demanded Babel's execution without success. However, Gorky's influence not only protected Babel but also helped to guarantee publication. In 1929 Red Cavalry was translated into English by J. Harland and later was translated into a number of other languages.\n \n \n\n \nArgentine author and essayist Jorge Luis Borges once wrote of Red Cavalry, \n \n \n\n \nThe music of its style contrasts with the almost ineffable brutality of certain scenes. One of the stories-Salt-enjoys a glory seemingly reserved for poems and rarely attained by prose: many people know it by heart. (wikipedia.org)\n

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