{"product_id":"red-cavalry","title":"Red Cavalry (RARE BOOKS)","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Amazing not only as literature but as biography.\" —Richard Bernstein,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Cavalry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer\/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the New Russia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawn from the acclaimed, award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComplete Works of Isaac Babel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, this volume includes all of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Cavalry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories—the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Best of used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":44274371264769,"sku":"2RNMD2681-Used","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/products\/IsaacBabel_Author_NathalieBabel_Author_PeterConstantine_Author_MichaelDirda.jpg?v=1661340649","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/red-cavalry","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}