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Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute
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Overview
Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American Jewish protagonist and a newly emergent voice that came to define American letters and that has continued to influence writers for over half a century. This collection is a tribute to Malamud in honor of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Literary critic Harold Bloom suggests that "Malamud is perhaps the purest storyteller since Leskov," the nineteenth-century Russian novelist and satirist. Novelist Cynthia Ozick, in a tribute to Malamud, described him as "the very writer who had brought into being a new American idiom of his own idiosyncratic invention."
Unlike other collections devoted to Malamud, this collection is international in scope, compiling diverse essays from the United States, France, Germany, Greece, and Spain, and demonstrating the wide range of scholarship and approaches to Bernard Malamud's fiction. The essays show the breadth and depth of this masterful craftsman and explore through his short fiction and his novels such topics as the Malamudian protagonist's relation to the urban/natural space; Malamud's approach to death; race and ethnicity; the Malamudian hero as modern schlemiel; and the role of fantasy in Malamud's fiction.
Bernard Malamud is a comprehensive collection that celebrates a voice that helped to shape the last fifty years of literary works. Readers of American literary criticism and Jewish studies alike will appreciate this collection.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780814341148 |
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Publisher: | Wayne State University Press |
Publication date: | 09/12/2016 |
Pages: | 344 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Gustavo Sánchez Canales teaches English at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where he is also vice dean for Research. He has published book chapters and articles on Saul Bellow, Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth, among others.
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
"Bernard Malamud, Person and Writer" Paul Malamud xvii
"Mediterranean" Paul Malamud xxi
Part I U.S. Voices
Introduction: "Moved by a Memory": Bernard Malamud's Literary Landscape Victoria Aarons 3
Novels
1 The Beard Makes the Man: Bernard Malamud's A New Life Leah Garrett 17
2 "I Shit My Death": From the Providential to the Excremental in The Fixer Holli Levitsky 31
3 The Jew as Vampire in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer Andrew M. Gordon 45
4 Malamud's The Tenants and the Problem of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel Timothy Parrish 52
5 Unbound and Un-bodied: Reading Race in Malamud's The Tenants Jessica Lang 70
Short Stories
6 Midrash, Memory, and "Miracles or Near-Miracles": Bernard Malamud's All-Too-Human Project Victoria Aarons 89
Part II European Voices
Introduction: Encountering Bernard Malamud through an I-Thou Relationship Gustavo Sánchez Canales 109
Novels
7 Rethinking the Discourse of Suffering in Bernard Malamud's Fiction Pilar Alonso 119
8 "What's in a Name?": Aptronyms and Archetypes in Bernard Malamud's The Assistant and The Fixer Gustavo Sanchez Canales 135
9 Fixing Bernard Malamud's The Fixer through Translation: From El hombre de Kiev (1967) to El reparador (2011) Martín Urdiales Shaw 151
10 Dostoevsky Lawrence, Malamud: Malamud's Heroes, Facing the Twin Rejection of Identity and Sensuality Rémi Astruc Alan Astro 171
11 Writing on the Edge of Doom: Theological Reflections on Bernard Malamud's God's Grace Till Kinzel 183
Short Stories
12 Seeking the Man behind the Text or a Biographical Approach to Bernard Malamud's Short Stories Emilio Cañadas Rodriguez 197
13 Malamud's Short Fiction: Angels and Specters Félix Martín Gutiérrez 210
14 Bernard Malamud's and John Updike's Art Stories: The Act of Creation in "Still Life" and "Leaves" Aristi Trendel 231
15 Arthur Fidelman's Aesthetic Adventures and Malamud's Poetics Creativity Theodora Tsimpouki 244
Annotated Works Cited 265
Contributors 297
Index 303
What People are Saying About This
Bernard Malamud was one of the great Jewish literary icons of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume reveal an international and cross-cultural dialogue bound to illuminate both scholarly and lay readers. Victoria Aarons and Gustavo Sánchez Canales deserve our appreciation.