Description:
This book, part of the acclaimed AATSEEL Critical Companions series, is designed to guide readers through Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel's classic series of short stories about his time with the Cossacks and the Soviet-Polish war of 1920. An introduction places Red Cavalry and its author within Russian history and literature, and essays by scholars offer opinion and analysis of Babel's method and thought. Finally, there are selections from Babel's diary dealing with the novel, and a bibliography chosen by the editor.
