30
Followers
10
Following
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
Red Cavalry, by Isaac Babel
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 the time was this kind of character is part of a Russian character. I saw several of his type in Isaac Babel's short story collection, Red Cavalry, soon to be reissued by Pushkin Press...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
2