The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Summary

This gathering of Babel's short fiction includes the famed 'Red Cavalry' sequence, drawn from his service with a Cossack regiment during the Polish-Soviet War, alongside the Odessa tales of Jewish gangsters and family life. Babel's compressed, image-driven sentences pack startling violence and tenderness into a few pages. The volume introduced a wider Anglophone readership to one of the great modern stylists of the short story.