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The misunderstanding in his case lies in how the relation between those virtues and writing itself is seen. He was a storyteller in an era when most of our best writers have been suspicious...
Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short-story writer who made parables out of Jewish immigrant life. His notable books included The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and The Fixer (1966); the latter won a Pulitzer Prize.
- Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux
- 1989
Writing in the second half of the twentieth century, Malamud was well aware of the social problems of his day: rootlessness, infidelity, abuse, divorce, and more. But he also depicted love as redemptive and sacrifice as uplifting. In his writings, success often depends on cooperation between antagonists.
Mar 23, 2014 · Malamud’s problem was not shame: if anything it would be guilt, for his was a guilt-culture, not a shame-culture – and he suffered from his own cloaks and reticences as well as needing those private defences.
misjudge or ignore the more subtle effects of his writing, to miss his sensible and symbolic capacity for mystery. Conventionally, Malamud concludes most of his novels and many of his stories with arresting images of qualified promise. His protagonists are fixed in the reader's mind in the
Jun 11, 2020 · All Bernard Malamud’s (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) fiction seems based on a single affirmation: Despite its disappointments, horror, pain, and suffering, life is truly worth living. His work may be best understood in the context of mid-twentieth century American literature.
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