Cavalry Corps

About This Novel

This book is the representative work of the famous Russian short story writer Babel. In 1920, at the age of 26, he followed the First Cavalry Army of the Soviet Red Army led by Budyonny in attacking Poland as a war correspondent. This was the last large-scale cavalry battle in European history and in human history. This tragic war lasted for three months. Babel recorded everything he witnessed in his battlefield diary: bravery and cowardice, integrity and hypocrisy, killing and death, as well as repeatedly trampled towns and unarmed and fearful civilians. From 1923 to 1924, he successively wrote more than 30 novels based on these battlefield diaries, which is "Cavalry Army". In addition to objectively and sincerely recording many astonishing facts, these novels also have many extraordinary features in terms of language, details and structure, and thus have extremely high artistic achievements. "Cavalry" was republished in 1975 and translated into more than 20 languages, shocking the European and American literary circles. In 1986, "European" magazine selected 100 world novelists, and Babel ranked first because of this novel.

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