Masterpieces of Short Fiction

Babel's "My First Goose" - Violent Concision (1x8)

Air date: Jan 01, 2008

This lecture takes you back to Russia and to a remarkable initiation tale set against the backdrop of the Bolshevik Revolution. Through Babel's shocking and unsettling tale, you are introduced to a singularly important theme that will recur throughout 20th-century fiction: violence.