Crossing into Poland (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Babel
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic
- Time of Work: 1920
- Setting: Poland
- Principal Characters: The narrator, A Jewish woman, Her father
- Genres: Short fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Victims, War, Anti-Semitism
- Locales: Poland
The Story
To appreciate fully this very short story, apparently no more than a sketch, one must understand its context. Most significant is its position as the first of thirty-five related stories originally collected under the title Konarmiia (1926; Red Cavalry, 1929). The stories all deal with the Russian campaign against Poland—from July through September, 1920—undertaken by General Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry. The author, a Jew from Odessa who rejected Judaism to become a communist, participated in this campaign (which was unsuccessful) as a propaganda...
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