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CAVALERIE ROUGE SUIVI DE JOURNAL DE 1920

CAVALERIE ROUGE SUIVI DE JOURNAL DE 1920

ClassicsHistorical Fiction
Pages
387
Published
1999
Language
French

Synopsis

Isaac Babel's 'Red Cavalry' plunges readers into the brutal and chaotic world of the Polish-Soviet War through a series of interconnected short stories. Based on Babel's own experiences as a war correspondent, the collection offers a stark and unflinching portrayal of the Red Army's campaign. Accompanying this is '1920 Diary,' providing a raw, firsthand account of the events that inspired the fiction.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

GrittyMelancholicDarkReflective
Survival

Genres

Classics Historical Fiction Military

About the author

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Isaac Babel

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 13 July) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.