BOOKS 2023 #הצחוק האדום

'The Yoke of War' and 'The Red Laughter' are two novellas translated into Hebrew for the first time. The novel "Red Laughter" was written in 1904, following the Russo-Japanese War, but it has no markers of a specific time and place, and is a sort of allegory for war in general. The novel 'The Yoke of War' was written in 1914, and is a war diary rooted in a specific time and place - Petersburg during the First World War.