Red Cavalry Quotes

“Оранжевото слънце се търкаля по небето като отсечена глава, нежна светлина припламва в клисурите на облаците, щандартите на залеза се веят над нашите глави. Мирис на вчерашна кръв и убити коне капе във вечерната прохлада.”
― Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry

“Here I wake up because the pregnant woman is touching my face with her fingers.
"Pane,"* she says to me, "you're calling out in your sleep and tossing about. I'll arrange a bed for you in another corner because you're pushing my father."
She raises her thin legs and rounded abdomen and removes the blanket from the sleeping man. Lying on his back is an old man, dead. His glottis has been torn out and his face split in two; his beard is clotted with blue blood resembling a piece of lead.
"Pane," says the Jewess, shaking the mattress, "the Poles killed him, and he begged them: 'Kill me in the back yard so that my daughter doesn't see how I die.' But they did as it was most convenient to them. He died in this room, thinking of me. And now I'd like to know," cried the woman with sudden terrible violence, "I'd like to know where you'd find in the whole world another father like my father!”
― Isaak Babel, Red Cavalry

“Она читала, далеко отставив от себя книгу: упавшая на стол рука казалась неживой.”
― Isaac Babel, Конармия