The People and Uncollected Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Malamud
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: An unfinished novel, a fragment of a novella, and fifteen short stories
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Socialism, Murder or homicide, Genius, Native Americans or American Indians, Jews or Jewish life, Kidnapping, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Butchers
Asked by a fastidious, middle-aged author of two obscure books why he wants to be a writer, Gary Simson, an aspiring young litterateur, replies: “To convey my experience so that I become part of my readers’ experience, so, as you might say, neither of us is alone.” Eli Fogel, the middle-aged writer, writes because it 5 in me to write. Because I can’t not write.” At work on his third novel, Fogel has had “visions of himself dying before the book was completed. It was a terrible thought.”
It is a terrible reality that Bernard Malamud, who conveyed his experience so...
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