![]() ![]() The Volyn is withdrawing from us into a pearly mist of birch groves, it is creeping away into flowery knolls and entangling itself with enfeebled arms in thickets of hops. The stories are written in the precise, laconic and juicy language and are as vivid as colourful photographs.įields of purple poppies flower around us, the noonday wind is playing in the yellowing rye, the virginal buckwheat rises on the horizon like the wall of a distant monastery. And his frightfully and mercilessly graphic Red Cavalry may be considered as a horrifying historical document. Isaac Babel was a witness of history, a partaker of the fratricidal Civil War. ![]()
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