Sun Yu, curator of Luxun Museum
Cossack images often appear in Pushkin's poems. I was very young then. I like Pushkin, study Russian and am curious about that country. Cossack's shadow is bloody and vigorous in Pushkin's poems, dotted with the beauty of his poems, but it is erratic, never clear and fleeting. I never wanted to know the impulse of that magical nation, but I didn't know the profound story of such a bloody nation until I read Babel's Cavalry. Cossack's history is closely related to Asia, and later it played a role in cleaning up Europe. I have little access to relevant information. Babel's emotional picture is amazing and contains too many connotations. He drove away the Cossack demeanor of the poet.
The art of Babel was first introduced by Lu Xun and Zhou Yang. Recently, due to the vigorous promotion of Mr. Wang and Mr. Wang, it has produced certain repercussions among domestic readers. I like Babel's novels very much. He gave me more stimulation than any contemporary writer in China. The stories of cavalry and Odessa are miraculous existence, and the enigmatic words connect the limits of human nature and cognition. God and refugees, god and animal desire, the dusk of the flood, are close to each other, which often makes people feel thrilling and uneasy. Babel has given us too much magic. And the unattainable result makes us only satisfied with the general reading enjoyment, and has no desire to study it. That's also out of the consciousness of not asking for a solution, right?
I didn't know the mystery behind the spirit of Babel until The End of Cossack was published. They surfaced one by one, and some hazy consciousness now has an outline. The charm of the author Wang is a flash in the roaring history, illuminating a blind spot in Russian society. This is a guide to the study of Babel, pointing to a world that China readers have never seen before, including a corner of the modern history of China. If it weren't for this fierce nation, Russia's expansion might be another color. Only then did I understand why Pushkin's poems shed such emotional notes in the rhythm of Cossack, perhaps overlooking an impermanent fate?
The remarkable thing about the Tower of Babel is that it vividly describes the real Cossack, mixing the ancient Jewish civilization with the cavalry of a powerful nation. The softest and most tragic painting of the beautiful scenery of the world. The reason for it is to give readers an incredible aura. If it weren't for Wang, we probably wouldn't understand this deep-seated problem. The End of Cossack is not an ordinary literary research work, it involves too many connotations. Rich history, religion, European customs, Russian revolution, party culture, the history of the Holocaust and the Soviet-Polish War ... Babel also led to the richness of the end of Cossack.
The value of Babel points out the blind spot of thought in absurdity and cruelty, and the changing ideas and unchanging customs show various forms of human life. The interpretation of the details in The Cossack's End delighted me. Described an illogical existence in a scientific and rigorous voice. The average reader is just immersed in the feeling of surprise, but the end of Cossack returns to the source of spiritual flow. The magic of Babel lies in expressing countless possibilities of the spirit. Cossack's close relationship with him stimulated his heart. The highest spiritual expectation and the most primitive wild glory collide here, creating a rare spectacle of words. This is the world. Barbarism and civilization are opposites and mixed. Let's see where there have been wars in recent years. Isn't that what it is?
The contrast is powerful. I understand why Lu Xun likes Russian novels. Because the tramp in the bloody movie also reflects past lives in China. How can British and American aristocratic literature satisfy the wishes of writers like Lu Xun? We experienced Liangshan, Zhang, Li Zicheng and the Boxer Movement. These are intertwined with our history. Compared with Russian novelists, China literati painted too much, which led to countless tragic images moving towards the empty ci forest. Lu Xun praised Babel as a worldwide writer, and it is not without reason. We haven't met such fantastic books as Cavalry, Odessa's Story and Babel's Diary on horseback among China writers.
Pushkin showed me the Cossack in the poem. Babel is a cossack that I felt outside the poem, a bonfire that tore up and destroyed everything. Our history once existed. What a bloody nation leaves people is poetry, which is natural and beautiful, but the existence outside poetry is more attractive to the world. Because we all live in a bumpy world. There is no way.
Immortality of cavalry: the enlightenment of Babel phenomenon
Recently, People's Literature Publishing House has released a Chinese translation of the collection of short stories by the Soviet writer Babel, and Xi 'an Film Studio will make it into a China version of the film of the same name ... Babel has become a hot spot for a while.
The name Babel is very strange to readers in China. I can't find his name through Ci Hai and the History of Soviet Literature. Due to the introduction of his new translation by the media, people know something about this literary master who died like a comet.
Babel/Kloc-started writing at the age of 0/8 and published his works in the magazine edited by Gorky. Gorky discovered his genius and called him a master of writing miniature novels. After the October Revolution, Babel joined the army and attacked Poland as a war correspondent with the First Cavalry Army of the Soviet Red Army, witnessing the unprecedented tragic large-scale cavalry campaign in human history. According to this movement, he wrote more than 30 short stories and published them in magazines. The novel records the story of Soviet cavalry on the battlefield during the Soviet-Polish War, focusing on their humanity and truly revealing the little-known inner world of cavalry soldiers. 1926 published novel collection "cavalry". The book received rave reviews after its publication, but its harsh authenticity annoyed budyonny, commander of the First Cavalry Army. Marshal cavalry attacked him angrily, because what he wrote was not the First Cavalry, but the Ma Qinuo Gang. Gorky stepped forward to defend Babel, so Babel was able to tide over the difficulties temporarily, but he could no longer continue to write. After Gorky's death, Babel was doomed. /kloc-0 was arrested in May, 1939, and 1940/kloc-0 was executed on October 27th. From then on, his works were banned. It was not until 1957 that the Soviet literary world was "thawed" that Cavalry was reprinted, translated into more than 20 languages, spread all over the world and shocked the world. There has been a whirlwind of Babel in European and American cultural circles. 1986, the Italian magazine The European selected 100 best novelists in the world, and Babel ranked first. In 2002 and 2003, "Cavalry" ranked in the American bestseller list for two consecutive years. Every article in "Cavalry" is short and pithy, only five or six thousand words, and only half a page. Babel's writing skills can be said to be perfect: the novel style is novel and unique, shocking; Language, he asked himself:
It must be as accurate as a war bulletin or a bank check.
It is rare in the history of world literature to have such a great influence on the global literary world and win such a lofty reputation with a thin booklet.
And some of our writers and scholars can write thousands of words a day and publish six or seven books a year, and their names often appear in various newspapers and magazines. People want to know how these works are written. How is its quality? Can it be handed down? Film and television celebrities are not far behind. It is true that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves before, and handsome guys and beautiful women go into battle together. What is the value of those things that reveal privacy? But publishers are eager for this product, not just to make money!
The phenomenon of Babel is enlightening to the impetuous atmosphere of China's current cultural circles: fewer but better, offering healthy and beneficial products to readers, and not creating spiritual garbage of human society just for fame and fortune!
Guangming Daily: The cavalry of Babel
"budyonny himself not only likes to beautify the appearance of soldiers, but also likes to beautify horses. Babel beautifies the hearts of soldiers in budyonny. In my opinion, it is better and more real than Nikolai Nikolai Gogol's beautification of Zaboro fever. "
After the publication of Babel's masterpiece "Cavalry", the great writer Gorky stepped forward and made a famous defense for Babel when the current commander of the First Cavalry Army of the Soviet Union, Buzioni, angrily accused the writer of writing "Not the First Cavalry Army, but a gangster in Ma Qinuo". However, Gorky can bravely defend the writer's sacred right to artistic creation, but he can't protect Babel's precious life-he was arrested in May 1939 and executed in October1the following year. As a result, the gifted Babel, like a dazzling comet, flashed in the night sky of Soviet literature and was fleeting.
After the Soviet Union "thawed", works such as "Cavalry Corps" were republished and translated into dozens of languages. In the European and American cultural circles, a "Babel whirlwind" has blown up. People who are amazed and surprised circulate and talk about Babel, an almost forgotten literary genius. Hemingway realized that Babel wrote more succinctly than he did. Borges thinks that Babel's works enjoy the glory that prose is hard to get and only poetry deserves. Calvino pointed out that Cavalry is "one of the wonderful works of realistic literature in this century". Europe magazine named the world's 100 best novelists, and Babel ranked first.
Why does the Tower of Babel have such great charm?
Eighty years ago, 26-year-old Babel, as a war correspondent, followed Budyoni's first cavalry of the Soviet Red Army to attack Poland. This brave and invincible Cossack cavalry had scared off the enemy before entering Poland. According to the American pilots who served in the Polish army, we can see this powerful team marching on the official road to Poland paved by the czar from the plane, but we can see that there are 8 people riding on each line. Cossack soldiers wore cylindrical fur hats, black coats with hoods, rifles slung over their shoulders, long knives and short swords hanging around their waists, and marched bravely in the dust, with no end in sight a few kilometers away ... After the war, he published 36 short and pithy novels one after another, with a length of no more than five or six thousand words and only half a page. Finally, it was collected and published as Cavalry. Babel is famous. He is known as a "true master of language" and a "conqueror of literature". Cavalry is also called the "swan song" of war literature.
Woolf said, "Soul is the main feature of Russian novels". The same is true of cavalry. Babel described a unique cavalry battle, however, he paid more attention to human nature, human heart and soul. Ning Wu said that he described the vivid scenery of the human soul in the state of war, and he expressed in a unique way the strange mixture of violent passion, restlessness, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and compassion in the state of war. This is the charm of Babel.
In the spring of this year, when the warm wind roamed the streets of Beijing, Wang, a friend far away in San Francisco, suddenly called and talked endlessly about his infatuation, love and reverence for the Tower of Babel. According to the three English versions, he consulted the better Chinese version of Cavalry and found many mistranslations, that is, he found Mr. Dai Qi, a translator living in Shanghai, who was very willing to revise the translation again. Wang is also fortunate to be the head of the Hoover Archives in the United States, which is famous for its collection of Soviet documents. With the support of Ms. Hale, a large number of precious historical pictures have been copied, including many portraits of Babel, the book shadow of "Cavalry" in different languages and versions, the picture of the first cavalry in the Soviet Union, the heroic training and slashing of Cossack soldiers, the precious pictures of the Soviet-Polish war-posters and posters of both sides, street scenes of Warsaw and Kiev, American pilots participating in the war, and even a Babel.
Meet Babel again: cavalry
Read the tower of babel again after many years. Babel's novels have poetic beauty and iron tension. Especially in Stalin's dirty times, Babel joined the Red Cavalry as a Jew. Only a writer who has really experienced iron and blood can write words that are not artificial, secretive, sensational and loyal to his heart. Budyonny's cavalry has been haunted ever since after a bloody battle with Poland.
Babel is too reckless. He said that Stalin liked to commit suicide with people with historical stains, such as budyonny's wife, who married a bourgeois wife ... These words brought him fatal disaster.
My first goose was a masterpiece in the cavalry. It describes a college student who joined the cavalry. His glasses and doctorate were ridiculed and humiliated by cavalry. The boys threw his suitcase far away and farted on him. "A young man with flaxen hair and beautiful Ryazan face came to my box, picked it up and threw it out of the hospital. Then he turned around and pointed his ass at me, making a series of embarrassing sounds. " College students did not escape this insult, but laid hands on the "goose". "I turned around and saw someone else's sabre lying next to me. A noble goose is pacing in the yard, quietly combing its feathers. I jumped forward and kicked the goose to the ground. The goose head smacked under my boots and blood gurgled out. The white goose is separated by dung, and the dead goose wings are still flapping. "
Beautiful and weak geese easily die under boots, so college students are recognized by cavalry. They sit together to eat and drink, and talk about Lenin's Truth. Here is a very accurate comment on Lenin. "Don't say how difficult it is to find out the truth from a lot of miscellaneous things, but he pecked it like a chicken pecked rice."
In Soviet literature, only forests are seen, but trees are not. Ideology is the mainstream. At that time, Babel's novels read the beauty of human nature, not mainstream. His short and powerful words froze his heart and blood. Babel is the last Russian-Soviet writer who caused a sensation in China.
Truth is veiled with killing, smiling with justice. The soldiers trampled on the people of weak countries. Think of Mongolian soldiers, Genghis Khan, Kangxi cutting gold ... people on horseback are born bloodthirsty and take killing as their profession. Budyonny's cavalry saw his image, his moustache was elegant and extraordinary, and the cavalry generals were all handsome and mighty. No wonder Babel's works have been enthusiastically worshipped.
When Babel was detained, together with many intellectuals, he confessed his "deeds" against his will, and the evidence was locked in the cupboard by Stalin, ready to throw out punishment at any time. "Who knows her heart better than me?" The kind and quiet Babel only lived for 47 years. The dying request of a talented novelist is: "I only have one request, that is, let me finish my last work." 1940 was shot in the early morning of June 27th. In the dream, the gunfire was loud and the soul was torn apart.
The writers encountered in each period are different, and the reading mood at that time determined the fate with this writer. Reading is a process of searching for evidence in books with surging inner feelings. Babel, your soul floats in the sky of those poor people. In a world full of plasma, the romance of Babel is brought to the extreme. This is a magical country in America. No matter where you are, as long as you are among human beings, you can feel the absurdity and beauty everywhere.
The cavalry and diary of Babel 1920
1920 In June, Lenin launched the Soviet-Polish War. He wanted to drink horses in Warsaw, promote the German workers' uprising and spread the revolution throughout Europe and the world.
At that time, the Soviet Red Army attacked Poland from two directions: Western troops attacked from Minsk, Belarus, and under the command of 27-year-old tukhachevsky, they swept Warsaw all the way at the end of July. The Southwest Army attacked from Kiev, under the command of yegorov, with the first Cossack cavalry as the pioneer. It was founded in June of19191year, with five divisions and16,700 Cossacks. In the civil war from 19 18 to 1920, they were led by budyonny and defeated all the white troops fighting against them. 1920 In May, they fought thousands of miles from the front line of the civil war, captured Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, almost surrounded the Polish army, and then broke into Poland for 300 kilometers, like nobody's business.
26-year-old Babel, alias Lyutov, as a war correspondent of Russian Southern News Agency in Odessa, invaded Poland with the First Cavalry. Along the way, Babel's duty is not just a war reporter; It also includes filling in the battle report; Requisition of ox carts and horses; Interrogate prisoners; Convey orders, etc. And he is still preparing for his future creation. He is on horseback, in the camp, in the carriage; What I saw and heard along the way was recorded intermittently in the hail of bullets, hunger and cold, and lack of manpower, including all aspects of cavalry-from commanders, political commissars, teachers, brigade commanders and heads to messengers and nurses, from charging, fighting, marching to indiscriminate killing of prisoners of war-this is his 1920 military diary.
At first, the Red Army was in full swing, but with the deepening of Poland, the front line was too long and the logistics could not be supported. Although tukhachevsky's western front troops surrounded Warsaw, his front was not tight. At the beginning of August, the Red Army High Command asked the Southwest Army to transfer the Cossack cavalry to the headquarters in tukhachevsky. At that time, the political commissar of the Southwest Army was Stalin. He and yegorov did not actively carry out the transfer order, but wanted to conquer Lviv to the south, spread the war to Romania, Hungary and even the whole southeast Europe, and the autumn scenery of the share the world revolution in tukhachevsky.
1920 August 16, Polish leader Piezdski personally led a magical soldier to break through the weakest part of the Red Army encirclement and detour to the rear of the Red Army. The Red Army in the west, which had become a spent force, immediately fell apart and was completely defeated within a week. Cossack cavalry in the southwest also failed to conquer Lviv. At the end of August, they were defeated by Polish lancers in the last cavalry battle in European history. The dream of world revolution is shattered here.
Babel participated in the whole process of this cavalry campaign. From 65438 to 0923-24, Babel created a collection of short stories that shocked the world based on his experiences in this war and his diary, from which most of the characters and scenes can be found. After the publication of 1926, it caused a sensation in Russia and was reprinted eight times in a row. 1927- 1929, German, French, English and Spanish versions were published one after another. Babel became a world-famous writer. Hemingway was his earliest reader and praised him for being more concise than himself. Lu Xun read Babel's autobiography as early as the 1930s.
But since the publication of cavalry, he has been attacked by cavalry officers, including commander budyonny. Gorky also openly argued with Buyoni and defended Babel. The true record of the defeat of the war in Cavalry finally offended Stalin and his best friend. From 65438 to 0924, with Stalin coming to power, the control of ideology became more and more strict. In the 1930s, the great cleansing began. At the All-Soviet Writers' Congress in 1934, Babel praised Stalin's writing style, but called on writers to have the right to write "bad" works and called himself a master of silence. Gorky died in 1936. 1May, 939 15, the Soviet secret police arrested Babel for espionage and searched all his manuscripts. 1940 65438+1In the early morning of October 27th, Babel was shot. His last words were "I only have one request, that is, let me finish the last work."
Stalin also shot Tuhachevsky, yegorov, Kamenev and other senior generals who directly participated in the Soviet-Polish War. The truth of the Soviet-Polish War was gradually submerged in the dust of history.
1954, Babel was rehabilitated and his works were rediscovered. But it was not until 1990 that all the works of Babel were published. His diary 1920 was also published in full for the first time. With the publication of German, Italian, French and English versions, this diary is not only regarded as a major discovery of the 20th century writers' manuscripts, but also recognized as a literary classic.
Read "cavalry"
1920, a man named Colio wears thin round glasses. In his youth, Lyutov came to the first cavalry of the Soviet Red Army under the command of Buccioni. He fought with the army and attacked Poland. At the same time, he published battlefield reports and military sketches in Red Cavalry. Three years later, the young man organized the battlefield diary into more than 30 novels; 1926, these novels were collected in the name of cavalry, translated into several languages and introduced to other western countries.
Isaac, the author of this book? Babel, a Jew, was born in Odessa, a coastal city in southern Russia, 1894. Due to various historical reasons, the cruel persecution and even mass slaughter of Jews have been going on in Europa for two thousand years. When Babel 1 1 was years old, he witnessed the massacre of Jewish settlements by Cossack cavalry hired by the Tsar. Wherever Cossack cavalry went, Jews were bullied and humiliated and killed for no reason. As a member of the vulnerable group, Babel has both fear and respect for Cossack cavalry, and his inner desire is to be as strong as Cossack cavalry.
He decided to join the Cossack Red Cavalry. He wanted to portray himself as an out-and-out Cossack cavalry, but he was Jewish and had to change his name to Colio? Lyutov went to the battlefield as an army reporter. This constitutes a strange phenomenon: a Jew fought side by side with his sworn enemy Cossack cavalry, but watched them slaughter Polish Jews, and his heart was extremely painful; A person with strict civilization education wants to be a primitive, savage and ferocious butcher. Wang, editor of the Chinese version of the book, said that this is Babel's Jewish complex and Cossack complex. I think this is essentially a fierce conflict between the two forces of civilization and barbarism in Babel's mind, and it is externalized as a form of expression. On the one hand, he felt sad and indignant for "anti-Semitism" and "massacre of Jews", on the other hand, he worshipped Cossack cavalry.
In this collection of short stories, Babel describes the scenes of cavalry life in concise, short, meticulous and poetic language. Babel gave full play to its advantages in describing scenes and dialogues, and made an event and a character real and full, with a strong three-dimensional sense. In his novels, the characters leap from the pages, as if wearing a black coat, just whizzing past you. The authenticity of the novel can be reflected by the characters. Babel's characters are all real people, but some of them use aliases, such as the young teacher Savisky and later Soviet marshal Tymoshenko, who was only 24 years old. For most people, Babel simply used their real names, such as Budiyoni, voroshilov, Shchardenko and so on. The authenticity of the characters increases the depth of the novel to a certain extent.
Babel is no different from an outstanding painter. He clearly solidified the historical picture of the Soviet-Polish War on paper and let people know the truth on the battlefield. He started with details and tried to describe things as they really are. This is his personal style of writing, but also his personality, but it also laid an unfortunate foreshadowing for his personal experience in the future. Those Cossack cavalry suffered heavy losses after World War I, Russian Civil War and Soviet War, and never recovered. Babel's novels were just elegies written for them.
Cavalry has swept the world for 80 years, shocked the hearts of countless people with dreams and passion, and won the praise of Gorky, Hemingway, Borges and other masters. The Chinese version is accompanied by more than 100 illustrations, including photos of the author, cavalry generals and cavalry drills, and the Russian version of this book. This allows readers to better understand this cavalry unit that exudes mystery and courage, youth and blood.
Copying of Cossack Cavalry Code
Last year, People's Literature Publishing House published an illustrated edition of "Cavalry" by Babel, which was not only rated as the top ten literary books of that year by China Reading Newspaper, but also sold 30,000 copies. Wang Meng in his 70s, Zhang Kangkang in his 50s and Zhang Yueran in his 20s all made long speeches praising Babel and the cavalry. Xi Film Studio has approved the cavalry of the National Film Bureau. Wang Quanan, a cutting-edge director, praised "Cavalry" as the writing style of the devil, and said that only by shooting on the border of Wooper can the heroic era and man of the hour be reproduced.
The cavalry sketched the Cossack, but failed to record the Cossack soldiers' clothing, equipment, appearance, figure, weapons, horses and so on. Focus on writing people and people's souls, without describing the daily fighting, charging and geographical environment of cavalry, leaving no marching route. If you really want to make a movie, battlefield objects will appear, which is beyond the reach of poetic language. Imagine that even when the most common officers report to the commander, their standing posture and mutual position have no basis.
And an old photo of that year may provide us with the visual information we need to restore the truth. After examination, the American film "Saving Private Ryan", which truly reappears the Allied landing on the beach in Utah, Normandy, was shot according to the surviving 1 1 photos taken by the army reporter Capa. Compared with film and photos, director Spielberg only restored the photos step by step, and even the rough action of burning was reproduced.
Today, there is finally a book with all the visual codes needed to recreate Babel's cavalry, Cossack soldiers and the Soviet-Polish war. This is Babel's Diary on horseback 1920 7-9 published by People's Literature Publishing House, in which we will see the detailed road map and timetable of the first Cossack cavalry to Ukraine and Poland, with the names of important cities and the dates when the cavalry fought nearby, and among them. In addition, in Babel's diary of 1920, we found that all powerful and charming Cossacks have prototypes. In this diary, in addition to Buccioni and voroshilov who appeared in the picture book of "Cavalry", *** 168 illustrations finally let people see the teacher Savage who appeared many times, that is, the most admired cavalry general in the Tower of Babel, Soviet Marshal Timoshenko. There is also the "famous Kniga" mentioned in the article Brigadier General of the Second Brigade, and Kolesnikov, who won the first battle, is the first time to appear in the relevant books of Babel; There is also the company commander Tronov, who killed prisoners of war first and then died heroically. He wore the old military uniform of the tsar and had two beards, which was outrageous. In the diary, we can find everything from commanders, political commissar, division commander, brigade commander, colonel, company commander to ordinary soldiers, and their appearances before, during, after, during the assault, during the March and in the military department.
Babel's diary itself is more like a camera that keeps running. Between the lines, we can not only smell the smell before the bomb exploded, feel hungry, see the hissing track, smell the gurgling blood, hear the silent slashing, and most importantly, Babel's eyes are always open. He looks at everything and describes everything, whether it's a mess or an excellent commander, or a savage or cunning soldier; Whether it's a dissolute nurse or a local resident who lives in drag out an ignoble existence; There were times when they rushed back and fled, and when they moved and robbed again and again, they did not escape the eyes of the hunter Babel. If "Cavalry" is a feature film that skillfully uses montage, then "Diary of Babel" is really like a complete version of a large documentary, recording everything in detail!
This is Babel's military diary when he invaded Poland with Cossack cavalry in 1920. The editor of Diary 1920 published by Yale University Press in the United States provided detailed comments, which took one year to translate, proofread, illustrate and make.
cavalry
A good book was published in Tomb Raider. Just search online and you'll know. It's not too much to praise. It is indeed a rare and strong book, so strong that everyone wants to recommend it.
The words are beautiful, so beautiful that people want to recite them. The description of the scene is very imaginative, even gorgeous, such as "the wind is jumping among the branches like a crazy rabbit" On the other hand, the narrative part of the story is extremely concise. For example, the classic passage in the classic chapter "My First Goose":
"I turned around and saw someone else's sabre lying next to me. A noble goose is pacing in the yard, quietly combing its feathers. I jumped forward and kicked the goose to the ground. The goose head smacked under my boots and blood gurgled out. The white goose is separated by dung, and the dead goose wings are still flapping. "
It is very pleasant to see such a narrative, as if the camera suddenly speeds up and cuts, killing a goose in three steps and killing a person in ten steps, which makes people breathless. In a word, almost all the bloody fragments in the book are so cruel and whispered.
In the words of the translator's interview, "This is probably a feature of Russian literature. Language is used to line drawing and details. Ideologically, he has a strong sense of urgency and critical spirit. " No wonder when I opened this book, I first thought of another book, Dostoevsky's Notes on the Driver's Dead House, which is particularly like a sketch of suffering. So I was very excited when I found this book, and I suddenly returned to the happiness of being immersed in the Notes of a Dead House.
The difference is that "Cavalry" is a short story of thousands of words, as clean as handfuls of sharp sabers. Thanks to the translator, the translation is so vivid that even the word "burp and fart" exists. It reads very smoothly and my eyes roll down. By the way, the dialogue in the article is also wonderful: "You can't live tomorrow! You won't survive tomorrow! Death is already in your intestines! ! ""Comrade, I'd rather hang myself. " Wait, that's interesting. Tonality is the same as "October Separation" filmed by those TV hooligans in Eastern Time and Space.
Generally speaking, reading some articles is like enjoying a drop of bright red blood, rolling down the discerning sabre and going straight to the tip of the knife, and breaking it in your chest in a flash. Those endings are really as sharp as the tip of a knife For example, my favorite sentence: "In our eyes, the world is a pasture in May, where women and horses stroll."
In addition, the preface of Babel's Secret is also very interesting, which reveals the unusual spiritual background of this Jew-he almost looks up to the Cossacks with a little abnormality, or rather, he is a sheep eager to put on wolf skin-knowing this, and then reading his article describing Cossack cavalry, you will have an unusual subtle feeling.
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