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

• 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.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Babel, Isaac  -- 1894-1940 -- Authorship. (LCSH)

Russia  -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Antisemitism  -- Russia -- Fiction. (LCSH)

War stories.  (LCSH)

Kurzgeschichte  (gnd)

Juden.  (swd)

Englisch.  (swd)

Genre

Short stories. 

Translations.  (fast)

War fiction.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Babel I.

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Klassifikation

PG3476.B2 (LCC)

891.708 (DDC)