Bernard Malamud
Subtitle: novels and stories of the 1960s
By: Philip Davis, editor
Contributors: Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice), editor
Series: The Library of America -- 249; Library of America -- 249.
Publisher: The Library of America
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 916
ISBN-13: 9781598532937
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: American Short stories; College teachers; Jews; Fiction
Other titles: Malamud :; Novels and stories of the 1960s
Description: Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America's most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America's Malamud edition brings together three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), a satiric campus novel set in the Pacific Northwest (based on the author's experiences at Oregon State), in which native New Yorker Seymour Levin finds himself confronted not only with a new landscape but with erotic intrigue, university politics, and an appointment that isn't quite what he had expected it to be. The Fixer (1966) is the gripping saga of a Jew imprisoned in pre-Revolutionary Russia after being falsely accused of the ritual murder of a twelve-year-old boy. The novel-in-stories Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969) follows the comic misadventures, sexual and otherwise, of a failed American painter in Italy. In the ten unforgettable stories concluding the collection, Malamud shows himself to be an heir to the tradition of Hawthorne, Chekhov, and Kafka, and at his best--"Idiots First," "The Jewbird," "The German Refugee"--their equal.
Table of contents: title: A new life --; title: The fixer --; title: Source of The fixer --; title: Pictures of Fidelman : an exhibition.; title: Last Mohican ;; title: Still life ;; title: Naked nude ;; title: A pimp's revenge ;; title: Pictures of the artist ;; title: Glass blower of Venice -- -- Ten stories.; title: Idiots first ;; title: Suppose a wedding (a scene of a play) ;; title: The Jewbird ;; title: Life is better than death ;; title: Black is my favorite color ;; title: The German refugee ;; title: A choice of profession ;; title: Man in the drawer ;; title: My son the murderer ;; title: An exorcism.