Red Cavalry Pa

by Babel,Isaac

• ISBN13: 9780393324235
• ISBN10: 0393324230
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia. Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories'”the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.

Author Biography

Isaac Babel was born in Odessa in 1894. He was killed by Statin's secret police in 1940, Nathalie Babel, his daughter, was born in Paris. She has edited two other books of Babel's writing and is the author of Hugo and Dostoevsky. Peter Constantine's award-winning translations include volumes of Chekhov and Thomas Mann

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(4)
Michael Dirda
Editor's Preface	13	(10)
Translator's Foreword	23	(4)
Acknowledgments	27	(6)
The Red Cavalry Stories	33	(138)
Crossing the River Zbrucz	39	(2)
The Church in Novograd	41	(3)
A Letter	44	(5)
The Reserve Cavalry Commander	49	(3)
Pan Apolek	52	(7)
Italian Sun	59	(4)
Gedali	63	(3)
My First Goose	66	(4)
The Rabbi	70	(3)
The Road to Brody	73	(2)
The Tachanka Theory	75	(3)
Dolgushov's Death	78	(4)
The Commander of the Second Brigade	82	(2)
Sashka Christ	84	(5)
The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko	89	(6)
The Cemetery in Kozin	95	(1)
Prishchepa	96	(2)
The Story of a Horse	98	(4)
Konkin	102	(4)
Berestechko	106	(3)
Salt	109	(4)
Evening	113	(3)
Afonka Bida	116	(6)
At Saint Valentine's	122	(4)
Squadron Commander Trunov	126	(7)
Ivan and Ivan	133	(7)
The Continuation of the Story of a Horse	140	(2)
The Widow	142	(5)
Zamosc	147	(4)
Treason	151	(5)
Czesniki	156	(4)
After the Battle	160	(4)
The Song	164	(3)
The Rabbi's Son	167	(4)
The Red Cavalry Cycle: Additional Stories	171	(28)
Makhno's Boys	173	(2)
A Hardworking Woman	175	(3)
Grishchuk	178	(2)
Argamak	180	(6)
The Kiss	186	(6)
And Then There Were Nine	192	(4)
And Then There Were Ten	196	(2)
A Letter to the Editor	198	(1)
1920 Diary	199	(96)
Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories	295	(12)
Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel: A Chronology	307	(7)
Gregory Freidin
Notes	314