基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：400 页
出版日期：2006年01月
ISBN：0140449973
条形码：9780140449976
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：红色骑兵军

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From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fiction of the great Russian-Jewish writer

One of the most powerful short-story writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Babel expressed his sense of inner conflict through disturbing tales that explored the contradictions of Russian society. Whether reflecting on anti-Semitism in stories such as “Story of My Dovecote” and “First Love,” or depicting Jewish gangsters in his native Odessa, Babel’s eye for the comical laid bare the ironies of history. His masterpiece, “Red Cavalry,” set in the Soviet-Polish war, is one of the classics of modern fiction. By turns flamboyant and restrained, this collection of Babel’s best-known stories vividly expresses the horrors of his age.

“Amazing not only as literature but as biography.” —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
“Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic.” —James Wood, The New Republic

作者简介 Isaac Babel (1894–1941) was a short-story writer, playwright, and correspondent with the Red Army forces during the Russian civil war. He died in a Soviet gulag in 1941.
Efraim Sicher teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
David McDuff has translated works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky for Penguin Classics.