by Isaak Babel · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422634430
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Red Cavalry and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by the Russian author Isaak Babel, published in 1926. The stories are based on Babel's experiences as a war correspondent in World War I, and offer a raw and realistic view of war and its effects on people. The collection is considered a masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature.
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian and Soviet 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.
