Bernard Malamud
Malamud, Bernard - mălˈəməd, 1914–86, American author, b. New York City, grad. B.A., College of the City of New York, 1936, M.A., Columbia Univ., 1942. His works reflect a concern with Jewish tradition and the nobility of the humble man. The Fixer (1966; Pulitzer Prize), set in czarist Russia, reveals the courage of a handyman falsely accused by the government of Read More...
Malamud, Bernard - mălˈəməd, 1914–86, American author, b. New York City, grad. B.A., College of the City of New York, 1936, M.A., Columbia Univ., 1942. His works reflect a concern with Jewish tradition and the nobility of the humble man. The Fixer (1966; Pulitzer Prize), set in czarist Russia, reveals the courage of a handyman falsely accused by the government of ritual murder. The Tenants (1971) describes the confrontation of two writers—one Jewish, one African American—and probes the nature of the art of writing. Among his other works are the novels The Natural (1952), A New Life (1961), Dubin's Lives (1979), and God's Grace (1982); the short-story collections The Magic Barrel (1958), Idiots First (1963), and Rembrandt's Hat (1973), gathered together in The Collected Stories (1997). See studies by J. Helterman (1985) and J. Salzberg, ed. (1987). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Bernard Malamud
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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story ("Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)" begins on p. 353)
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Bernard Malamud" begins on p. 252)
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.
Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.
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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s (Chap. 6 "From Shlemiel to Mentsh: Bernard Malamud")
by Louis Harap. 208 pgs.
In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction. His study examines precursors and strains of influence relating to this development, with special attention to the influence occasioned by Menorah Journal, Partisan Review, and Commentary.
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel (Chap. 5 "The Schlemiel as Moral Bungler: Bernard Malamud's Ironic Heroes")
by Sanford Pinsker. 202 pgs.
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No! In Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature ("Malamud: The Commonplace as Absurd" begins on p. 101)
by Leslie A. Fiedler. 340 pgs.
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Racial Conflict and Multiculturalism: Bernard Malamud's "The Tenants," in MELUS
by Edmund Spevack. 24 pgs.
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Plenty of News: Bernard Malamud's 'The Letter,' in Studies in Short Fiction
by Lawrence M. Lasher. 10 pgs.