Red Cavalry. Odessa Stories.

By Isaac Babel

1926

First Published

4.11

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332

Number of Pages

10H08M

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Povestiri traduse in peste 20 de limbi. Volumul de fata grupeaza integral povestirile din Armata de cavalerie, partial ciclul odesit si alte citeva texte. Prospetimea privirii auctoriale, alaturi de poeticitatea textelor – Isaac Babel este un rafinat stilist –, participa la conturarea unor personaje complexe, veridice. Prin fata cititorului se perinda cavaleristi (comandanti, comisari, simpli soldati), tarani, clerici, hoti, negustori, cu totii plini de viata, departe de orice schematism si ostentatie. Prin intermediul unor scrisori trimise de pe front, al unor frinturi din zilele de groaza, de acalmie ori de pregatire de lupta, dar si prin decuparea unor scene de viata din mediul evreiesc ori din propriul trecut, autorul se descopera ca pictor ce poate cuprinde in citeva trasaturi de penel, subtil, comic si tragic, destine si intelepciune, omenescul din om.

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Author

Isaac Babel

Author · 15 books

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 1894 - 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of my Dovecote and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Isaak Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge due to his longterm affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of May 15, 1939. After "confessing", under torture, to being a Trotskyist terrorist and foreign spy, Babel was shot on January 27, 1940. The arrest and execution of Isaak Babel has been labeled a catastrophe for the world of literature.