Isaac Babel is a great writer who was not appreciated at his time or even later. A writer whose well-earned fame came only in modern days, because the bizarre singularity of his talent became apparent only to the readers and critics who came through the turbulent XX century Russian history... Here are the masterpieces of Isaac Babel's prose; the true pearls of his "mystical realism".
"Red Cavalry" is a fervent and beautiful "chronicle of lost times" describing the civil war in Russia, represented by a tiny enclave of equestrians, who travel from battle to battle, from one legend into another...
"Odessa Tales" is a juicy, "tasty" infinitely colorful prose, where the history of a clan of Odessa hold-up man becomes truly mythological...
