The Badgers: A Novel
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From the fertile imagination of one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Badgers, a searing portrait of a nation tearing itself apart at the seams. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its chaotic aftermath, the novel chronicles the lives of two peasant brothers — Semyon and Pavel — whose paths diverge violently as one embraces the new Bolshevik order and the other leads a stubborn peasant uprising in the forests, clinging desperately to a vanishing rural way of life. Leonov constructs a microcosm of a civilisation in upheaval, where the ancient rhythms of the village collide head-on with the iron machinery of revolutionary modernity. Leonid Leonov, often spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy and Gorky, writes with a muscular, folkloric intensity that gives The Badgers the weight of myth and the urgency of a political manifesto. The novel stands as a landmark of early Soviet literature, unflinching in its portrayal of moral ambiguity — neither side is entirely heroic, neither entirely villainous — and it is this refusal to offer easy answers that grants it enduring power. Translated into English by Hilda Kazanina and published in 1947, this edition brings Leonov's visceral, landscape-drenched prose to the wider world, leaving the reader to wonder: when a society is reborn in fire, what — and who — is left behind?
Author: Leonid Leonov
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, Hutchinson International Authors Limited
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
From the fertile imagination of one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Badgers, a searing portrait of a nation tearing itself apart at the seams. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its chaotic aftermath, the novel chronicles the lives of two peasant brothers — Semyon and Pavel — whose paths diverge violently as one embraces the new Bolshevik order and the other leads a stubborn peasant uprising in the forests, clinging desperately to a vanishing rural way of life. Leonov constructs a microcosm of a civilisation in upheaval, where the ancient rhythms of the village collide head-on with the iron machinery of revolutionary modernity. Leonid Leonov, often spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy and Gorky, writes with a muscular, folkloric intensity that gives The Badgers the weight of myth and the urgency of a political manifesto. The novel stands as a landmark of early Soviet literature, unflinching in its portrayal of moral ambiguity — neither side is entirely heroic, neither entirely villainous — and it is this refusal to offer easy answers that grants it enduring power. Translated into English by Hilda Kazanina and published in 1947, this edition brings Leonov's visceral, landscape-drenched prose to the wider world, leaving the reader to wonder: when a society is reborn in fire, what — and who — is left behind?