Malamud, Bernard (Vol. 9) - Malamud, Bernard 1914–
Malamud, Bernard 1914–
A novelist and short story writer, Malamud is considered a leading author of fiction which is Jewish-American in subject and character. Aware of man's possibilities for regeneration and salvation, he has been described by Herbert Gold as "Dostoevsky tempered by Chagall's lyric nostalgia for a lost Jewish past." (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Mr. Malamud is neither naturalist nor impressionist, and he is not even dull; his fancy, confined neither to the limitations of the sensitive observer nor the narrow world of "real experience," manipulates the details of his fable in the interests of surprise and delight.
The epigraph of [The Natural] might well have been that melancholy popular phrase, "He could of been a hero!" It is about heroism that the story turns: the obligations of the heroic and its uses. For Roy Hobbs, the protagonist, the problem is...
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