The Right to Write Badly.

BABEL, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940; AUTHORS; MODERN literature; MODERN arts; LITERATURE

Presents an essay on literary craftsman Isaac Babel which was written from 1989 to 1990. Family background of Babel; Impact the Jewish upbringing of Babel have had on his work; Popularity in the generation of modernist Russian writers during the middle of the 1920s; Reason behind the claim that Babel is drawn to violence.