Odesskie rasskazy. Konarmiia [Odessa Stories. Cavalry]

This collection includes the well-known cycle of Babel's stories 'Konarmiya' and his immortal, disassembled into quotes 'Odessa Stories'. cruelty. 'Odessa Tales' are ironic stories about resilient bandits from Moldavanka and their irresistible leader Ben Krik. Babel masterfully depicts thieves, raiders and smugglers in birth, love and death. The low and the high, the spiritual and the carnal exist inseparably in this prose, just like life itself, described in a lively, expressive language.