This author's most famous protagonist earns the title "the King" for the way he acts after one of his men shoots Joseph Muginstein, and is a resident of the Moldovanka district, while another of his characters is a propaganda officer who reads a Lenin speech to the Cossacks after killing the title animal of the story, "My First Goose."
This author recounted selling his father's watch to go to Theater Street and see the titular play in his story Di Grasso, and a cripple in a wheelchair hits the narrator in the face with a pigeon in his "The Story of My Dovecot." A criminal who seizes power from his father is the protagonist of this man's plays, Sunset, and his only other work for the stage was part of a projected trilogy and was entitled Maria. This author's most famous protagonist earns the title "the King" for the way he acts after one of his men shoots Joseph Muginstein, and is a resident of the Moldovanka district, while another of his characters is a propaganda officer who reads a Lenin speech to the Cossacks after killing the title animal of the story, "My First Goose." For ten points, identify this author who created the Jewish gangster Benya Krik in his Odessa Tale, and wrote of his time spent with the Russian army in Poland in Red Cavalry.
This author recounted selling his father's watch to go to Theater Street and see the titular play in his story Di Grasso, and a cripple in a wheelchair hits the narrator in the face with a pigeon in his "The Story of My Dovecot."
Isaac Babel