Babel: Red Cavalry (Russian Texts)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781853994036 (1853994030)
Publish date: January 5th 2009
Publisher: Duckworth Publishing
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
History,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
World War II,
Short Stories
Last January, I read The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin and was horrified by the rapid emotional cycling of the main character. The same man who, in the morning, could commit rapes and beatings and executions would be the same man who wept at the beauty of an opera. What I didn't know at t...
I had two different professors, of two different disciplines, recommend this book to me, then I saw the cover and had to have it. It wasn't long before my girlfriend got it for me for Hanukkah, but it was almost a year before I was able to read it myself.In short, Red Cavalry is amazing, but I could...
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