Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel protest sinewy force of Isaac Babel’s

sinewy force of Isaac Babel’s pen

Then her father the King starts banging on about succession and responsibilities over dinner

Translated by Maria Bloshteyn

of the sea of Azov

Publishing House: Individuum

Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel protest sinewy force of Isaac Babel’sThroughout 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