Malamud, Bernard (Vol. 5) - Malamud, Bernard 1914–
Malamud, Bernard 1914–
A Jewish American novelist and short story writer, Malamud is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Assistant, The Tenants, and Rembrandt's Hat. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Bernard Malamud is a bit of a puzzle to many readers, though they often find it difficult to articulate their mystification. Anybody, however, who is not charmed by Malamud or not convinced of his talent, need only turn to "The Tenants" after a surfeit of contemporary fiction and he will discover that here is something distinctive, here is the elastic strength of a genuine prose style in the hands of a genuine writer. Malamud may not have solved his basic problems with plot, and he has, seemingly, tried to evade them here with a mirror trick, reproducing his own image on the career of his hero, thereby justifying his own failure; but whatever his difficulties along this line he has created and spoken through...
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