Konarmia

"Konarmia", the book of the short story of Isaac Babel (1894-1940) is one of the most striking and dramatic works of Russian literature on the war, an outstanding example of a new style - metaphorical prose. It is based on the diary that the writer kept during the service in the 1st Horse Army under the command of Semyon Budyonny. Budyonny was enraged by the publication in the journal Red Nov, he stated that the "Horse Army literally got on his hind legs, and demanded to “calm the presumptuous scribblers”. Babel himself could not answer him, but Maxim Gorky, who advised the marshal to “not judge literature from the height of his horse”, stood up for him. Nevertheless, that dispute Babel lost - a few years later he was shot by the Soviet regime. But in the historical perspective, he is an undoubted winner - it was his artistic talent that captured all the horror and tragedy of the civil war for descendants. The feather of Isaac Babel, and not by official memoirs, the story of the 1st cavalry was written