Nov 12, 2009

Dubin’s Lives | Dubin’s Lives

At a glance:

Author: Bernard Malamud
First Published: 1979
Type of Plot: Domestic realism
Time of Work: The 1970’s
Setting: Center Campobello, a small town in upstate New York
Principal Characters: William Dubin, Kitty Dubin, Fanny Bick, Maud, Gerald
Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
Subjects: Husbands, Parents and children, Marriage, Fathers, Adultery, Middle age, Mortality
Locales: New York

The Novel

Dubin’s Lives chronicles the story of Dubin, a man in his mid-fifties who is undergoing a life crisis. As a biographer who has studied the content of lives, he tries to redirect his own life. Dubin has always been much influenced by the lives he has studied. As the novel opens, he is writing about D. H. Lawrence. As he assimilates Lawrence, he becomes imbued with Lawrence’s sense of the preeminence of the force of sex. Looking to find passion and to change his life, Dubin falls in love with the young housekeeper whom his wife has hired. They talk to each...

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Dubin’s Lives | Dubin’s Lives

At a glance:

The Novel

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