Bernard Malamud (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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While acknowledging his significant achievements as a novelist, many critics believe that Bernard Malamud’s most distinctive and enduring contributions to American fiction are to be found in his short stories, particularly those collected in The Magic Barrel (1958) and Idiots First (1963). Malamud published three more volumes of short fiction in his lifetime: Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969), a collection of six linked stories featuring the same protagonist; Rembrandt’s Hat (1973); and The Stories of Bernard...

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