The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Bernard Malamud
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Folklore
- Subjects: Suffering, Love or romance, Marriage, Jews or Jewish life, Ethics, Landlords or tenants, Birds, Sacrifice, Begging or beggars, Rabbis, Loans
Several basic characteristics of the short story as a genre merge in the stories of Bernard Malamud to make his short fiction prototypical of the form and to ensure his place in world literature as one of the most masterful short-story writers in the twentieth century. First of all, in a complex aesthetic way, Malamud combines elements of the folktale with a post-Chekhovian poetic technique. Second, he focuses on what Irish short-story writer Frank O’Connor once called a “submerged population group.” Third, in a concrete way he illuminates complex and universal moral issues that...
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