A soldier named Nikita interrogates and shoots a woman who boards a train, having masqueraded the title substance as her unborn child in this author's story "Salt."
This author wrote about a drunken painter who pisses off the Catholic Church by using peasants as the models for saints in one of his stories. A soldier named Nikita interrogates and shoots a woman who boards a train, having masqueraded the title substance as her unborn child in this author's story "Salt." In 2002, the 1100 pages of this man's literary output was published by his daughter Natalie; it includes a fictionalization of an incident during this man's time spent as a reporter working with the army in which a soldier gained the respect of his peers by stomping on the skull of the title animal. This author of "My First Goose" was executed by the NKVD in 1940 after describing his boyhood in the Moldavanka ghetto through the eyes of the cow-slaughtering gangster Benya Krik. For 10 points, name this author of Red Cavalry and The Odessa Tales, the foremost Jewish Soviet author.
This author wrote about a drunken painter who pisses off the Catholic Church by using peasants as the models for saints in one of his stories.
Isaak Babel