In one story in this collection, the narrator is seduced by Madame Bedersky who had hired him to translate Guy de Maupassant. In another story, a woman wraps a block of salt in blankets and passes it as her child, but she gets thrown off of a moving train and then shot. A man tries to gain acceptance with his mates by stepping on the head of an old woman's goose, brutally killing it, and ordering the woman to cook it in the story "My First Goose." That man, Kirill Vasil'evich Liutov, narrates many of the 34 stories in this collection as a Jewish intellectual serving as a war correspondent when the Poles attack the Russian city of Kiev. FTP, name this collection by Isaac Babel titled after the military group he joins.
In one story in this collection, the narrator is seduced by Madame Bedersky who had hired him to translate Guy de Maupassant. In another story, a woman wraps a block of salt in blankets and passes it as her child, but she gets thrown off of a moving train and then shot. A man tries to gain acceptance with his mates by stepping on the head of an old woman's goose, brutally killing it, and ordering the woman to cook it in the story "My First Goose." That man, Kirill Vasil'evich Liutov, narrates many of the 34 stories in this collection as a Jewish intellectual serving as a war correspondent when the Poles attack the Russian city of Kiev. FTP, name this collection by Isaac Babel titled after the military group he joins.
In one story in this collection, the narrator is seduced by Madame Bedersky who had hired him to translate Guy de Maupassant.
{Red Cavalry} (Konarmiia)