Malamud, Bernard (Vol. 3) | Malamud, Bernard 1914–
Malamud, Bernard 1914–
A major American novelist and short story writer, Malamud is a leading member of the Jewish urban school of fiction. His hero is often the schlemiel, the awkward, luckless man somehow set apart from the rest of society, but his books are upbeat, affirming the possibility of regeneration and contending that man, even the lowliest, can be an instrument of his own salvation. He is the winner of several awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
[One] American Jewish writer, Bernard Malamud, has lifted the fictional Jew out of the morass of mediocrity in which he has been bogged down for the last several years. In his 1957 novel, "The Assistant," and the 1958 shortstory collection, "The Magic Barrel," Malamud's Jews are shown suffering, contending, failing, but never losing sight of the possibilities of "next year in Jerusalem."
Malamud seems the literary...
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