Babel, Color, and Kandinsky: Looking Beyond Contradictions in “My First Goose”

The most common sentence in Isaac Babel's criticism of The Red Calvary is obvious. In the article, critics describe this collection as "vision of polarity and paradox", "ambiguity not resolvable", and "paradoxical world based on incompatible polarity" (Luplow 216, 223 , 230). In the article "The Babel 's Red Cavalry: Epic and Tragedy, History and Culture," Milton lists a series of aversive contradictions for the reader to explore: "The Road to Violence and Peace, Cossacks and Jews, The new revolution "Order is a traditional society, a noble barbarian, a civilized person, a pair that may include all these - comparison of nature and culture" (Milton)

Babel and Luca are American horses, they were very short and born very soon. My father, Malluka, is painting. His hair is short, smooth, honey, with white spots full of strange shapes. He seemed to have a point that it was plain and then someone poured him in a white paint bucket. Like my father, Luca is calm and powerful. My horse Babel has a baked coat. Honey is the same color as Luca, but his hair mixes well with black hair instead of white spots. Babel is like me. He is a bit unpredictable. My father always said that he has character, but his attitude is certainly true. He needs to be remembered often to stay focused and to get on the right track.

The name of Babel is very easy to understand. In a quiet place in Lucca, Babel always complains and pledges. This is part of the reason why I fell in love with him. When I say something to him, I always know that he reacted to it, opposed it, or heard it 'verbally' already. There are white spots on the forehead of Luca and Babel, and they look like brothers and sisters side by side. When I lower the horse, Duke goes back and forth between my father and me. He was distracted by the birds flying from the nearby trees and kept watching over my father and me after a while. He pushed my hind legs as I would like to hurt and as I admit that he ran to my father and did the same. We brushed the horse's coat, removed the frayed hair, then threw the saddle pad back to the back.