Summary
Isak Babelj: The Red Cavalry
Selected works - book one
"The Red Cavalry" does not glorify war or war heroes, nor does it try to find those heroes, it shows the harsh life (livelihood) of an ordinary man, whether he is a soldier or a citizen, a peasant. What still needs to be highlighted is the way in which Babelj himself describes it. His words seem to be permeated with coldness as he describes urinating on a corpse, killing (slaughtering), raping. When in one part of the book he says that a woman was raped and he observes her, because he has never seen what a raped woman looks like in his life, the reader can get the impression that he is an insensitive "travel writer" who, just like that, saw a rape along the way, and observes what it looks like purely out of curiosity.
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