Research Catalog

Title

Red cavalry and other stories / Isaac Babel ; edited with notes by Efraim Sicher ; translated with an introduction by David McDuff.

Author

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940

Publication

• London : Penguin Books, 2005.
• ©1994

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sicher, Efraim
• McDuff, David, 1945-

Description

xxix, 364 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

Throughout 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 dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Short stories. English (McDuff)
• Penguin classics

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Babelʹ, I. 1894-1940 > Translations into English
• Babel I
• Babelʹ, I. 1894-1940
• Babel, I. 1894-1940 > Translations into English
• 1917-1970
• Antisemitism > Russia > Fiction
• War stories
• Antisémitisme > Russie > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Récits de guerre
• Manners and customs
• Antisemitism
• Kurzgeschichte
• Antisemitism > Russia > Fiction
• Soviet Union > Social life and customs > 1917-1970 > Fiction
• URSS > Mœurs et coutumes > 1917-1970 > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Soviet Union
• Russia
• Soviet Union > Social life and customs > 1917-1970 > Fiction
• Juden
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Translations
• Short stories
• Fiction
• War fiction
• Russian fiction
• Nouvelles.

Note

• First published,1994; reprinted with revisions, 1998; published in Penguin classics , 2005.
• "This translation is based on the complete, original text taken from an unexpurged Russian edition of Babel's stories. The introduction, by David McDuff, explores the relationship between Babel's life and work."--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-339).

Language (note)

• Translated from the Russian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Early stories -- Old Shloyme -- Ilya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofyevna -- Shabbos Nakhamu -- 'Autobiographical' stories -- Childhood -- At Grandmother's -- The story of my dovecot -- First love -- In the basement -- Awakening -- Di Grasso -- Guy de Maupassant -- The journey -- Red cavalry. Crossing the Zbrucz -- The Catholic Church in Novograd --- A letter -- The Konzapas Commander -- Pan Apolek -- The sun of Italy -- Gedali -- My first goose -- The Rebbe -- The way to Brody-- The theory of the Tachanka -- The death of Dolgushov -- Kombrig 2 -- Sashka Christ -- The life story of Pavlichenko, Matvey Rodionych -- The cemetery in Kozin -- Prishchepa -- The story of a horse -- Konkin -- Beresteczko -- Salt -- Evening -- Afonka Bida -- At St Valentine's -- Squadron Commander Trunov -- The Ivans -- A sequel to the story of a horse -- The widow -- Zamość -- Treason -- Czesniki -- After the battle -- The song -- The Rebbe's son -- Argamak -- Odessa stories -- The king -- How it was done in Odessa -- Justice in brackets -- Lyubka Kózak -- The father -- Sunset -- The end of the Almshouse -- Karl-Yankel -- Appendix -- Lionel Trilling's introduction to the first English translation (1955) of Isaac Babel's Collected stories.

ISBN

• 0140449973
• 9780140449976

LCCN

2019381913

OCLC

• 224292824
• SCSB-11314028

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library