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Red Cavalry
CHF 9.75 |
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Verlag: | Pushkin Press Audio |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 06.11.2014 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781782271123 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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Beschreibungen
War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting - few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the fighting up close, Babel is able to find the funny side of war while depicting its bloody side - in all its mesmerising and casual violence. The lyricism and bitterness that characterise the thirty-five short stories of
Red Cavalry are stunningly reproduced in this new translation by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.
Red Cavalry are stunningly reproduced in this new translation by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.