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Babel short story?
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I have read everything written by Babel. I am rather confident he never wrote anything like that. The reviewer must have been confused.Possibly he is confused with a scene of a pogrom (rather, after-pogrom) when the narrators find a dead body with genitalia cut off and shoved inside the victim's mouth. There is also mentioning of rapes during pogroms. This is part of the collection of stories "Konarmia" (Mounted Army).
In a recent review of Frederick Seidel poems (NYRB 7.16.09), the reviewer mentions a poem with the following reference to an Isaac Babel story: "Like the young bride in the Babel story / Forced to eat her husband's penis."
Anyone know title of this story? Is it from Red Cavalry collection? (the incident of bizarre violence would suggest so) I've read lots of Babel's stories, but never came across this one.
