My First Goose (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, Savitsky, Surovkov
- Genres: Short fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Christianity, Soldiers, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: Poland
The Story
“My First Goose” is an early story in Isaac Babel's collection Konarmiia (1926; Red Cavalry, 1929), based on the author's experiences in the Russian campaign against Poland during the summer of 1920. Although this story is not precisely autobiographical, the fuller context of the collection clarifies that the narrator, like the author, is an educated Jew, newly appointed to the Division as “Propaganda Officer.” Virtually all the soldiers in the Division are Cossacks, and anti-Semitic to the bone (as were the men of the historic First Cavalry in...
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