God's Grace | Techniques
We can separate aspects of Malamud's technique into three groups: genre, style, and symbolism. Inasmuch as it is a work of fantasy, God's Grace is unique among Malamud's novels (although not the short stories). Dispensing in a dramatic fashion with the conventions of verisimility, the author creates a rich and quasi-mythical story full of miracles and populated with talking animals and a supernatural being. "I write fantasy," he told Leslie and Joyce Field, "because when I do I am imaginative and funny and having a lot of fun."
Perhaps out of literary snobbery, some...
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