Bernard Malamud : novels and stories of the 1960s

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Bernard Malamud : novels and stories of the 1960s

Title remainder

novels and stories of the 1960s

Statement of responsibility

Philip Davis, editor

Title variation

• Malamud
• Novels and stories of the 1960s

Title variation remainder

novels and stories of the 1960s

Creator

• Malamud, Bernard,
• Malamud, Bernard,

Contributor

• Davis, Philip, (Philip Maurice,)
• Davis, Philip, (Philip Maurice,)

Author

• Malamud, Bernard,
• Malamud, Bernard,

Editor

• Davis, Philip, (Philip Maurice,)
• Davis, Philip, (Philip Maurice,)

Subject

• Fiction
• Jews -- Russia -- Fiction
• Short stories, American
• Short stories, American
• College teachers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction
• College teachers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Jews -- Russia -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Library of America ;, 249

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

The Library of America

Series volume

249