The Fixer | What Do I Read Next?
Austrian writer Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, first published in 1925, set the standard for novels about naive protagonists sucked into a complex, nightmarish legal system. Kafka's Joseph K. is so confused about of what he is supposed to be guilty that the term "Kafkaesque" has come to represent impersonal, irrational bureaucracy.
Malamud has described The Fixer as a folk tale. Many of his shorter works fit this description. They have been collected in
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