Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
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Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 in New York City and later received his B. A. from City College of New York and his M. A. from Columbia University. All of Malamud's works are highly respected, including "Armistice" (his first), "The Magic Barrel," which won the National Book Award, "The Fixer," vis mere which received a Pulitzer Prize. "The Assistant," "The Natural," "The Fixer," and "The Angel Levine," which were all adapted as films. Bernard Malamud died in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: By Unknown - Fotografía extraída de la revista Primera Plana. Año VIII numero 401, 6 de octubre de 1970 ,Buenos Aires, Argentina., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4833919
Værker af Bernard Malamud
Novels and Stories of the 1960s: A New Life / The Fixer / Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition / Stories (2014) 92 eksemplarer
The Fixer, The Natural, The Assistant (All Three Novels, Complete and Unabridged) (1994) 63 eksemplarer
Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s And 80s (LOA #367) : The Tenants / Dubin's Lives / God's Grace /… (2023) 11 eksemplarer
Tutti i racconti: 1940-1962 5 eksemplarer
הדיירים 3 eksemplarer
The Magic Barrel [short story] 2 eksemplarer
Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s (LOA #367): The Tenants / Dubin's Lives / God's Grace / Stories… 2 eksemplarer
Two fables 2 eksemplarer
A Summer's Reading 2 eksemplarer
Per me non esiste altro. La letteratura come dono, lezioni di scrittura (Italian Edition) (2015) 2 eksemplarer
Stories of Bernard Malamud 2 eksemplarer
Tutti i racconti: 1963-1984 2 eksemplarer
The Prison {story} 1 eksemplar
Ein neues Leben 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
Ora tutto è cambiato (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Az első hét esztendő 1 eksemplar
Rare Bernard Malamud IDIOTS FIRST Signed First Edition 1963 -Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
Die Mieter 1 eksemplar
Angel Levine 1 eksemplar
Armistizio (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
העוזר 1 eksemplar
Nowe życie 1 eksemplar
Commesso (Il) 1 eksemplar
I primi sette anno e altri racconti 1 eksemplar
Malamud Bernard 1 eksemplar
My Son the Murderer [short story] 1 eksemplar
Bernard Malamud. L'Homme de Kiev : Ethe Fixere, roman traduit de l'américain par S. Solange et G.… (1967) 1 eksemplar
Il cliente fisso (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
La modella (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
La parrucca (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
A riposo (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
La corona d'argento (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
L'ira di Dio (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Uomo nel cassetto (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
La scelta d'una professione (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Il profugo tedesco (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Prima gli idioti (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Twenty Stories 1 eksemplar
Posthumously Published Stories 1 eksemplar
La dama del lago (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Abbi pietà (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
The Tenants {video} 1 eksemplar
Un'estate di letture (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Black Is My Favorite Color 1 eksemplar
Angelo Levine (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Il barile magico (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Confessione d'omicidio (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
Best Short Stories of Bernard Malamud 1 eksemplar
Il prestito (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
O bode expiatório 1 eksemplar
O nu despido e outros contos 1 eksemplar
La prigione (in Racconti) 1 eksemplar
The First Seven Years 1 eksemplar
Four Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 129 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Modern Choice 2 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1914-04-26
- Dødsdag
- 1986-03-18
- Begravelsessted
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- City College of New York (BA ∙ 1936)
Columbia University (MA ∙ 1942) - Erhverv
- Writer
- Relationer
- Smith, Janna Malamud (daughter)
- Organisationer
- Bennington College (Professor, 1961-1986)
Oregon State University (Professor, 1949-1961) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- PEN/Malamud Award (named in his honor)
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- ISBN
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Bernard Malamud intertwines the lives of two down-on-their-luck characters, Morris Bober, the Jewish owner of a failing grocery store in Brooklyn, and Frank Alpine, a drifter whose tenuous connection to the grocery store, its owner and his family devolves over time as the truth behind his motivation for helping out at the store is slowly revealed. Bober, as the archetypal Jew, struggles to overcome the harms inflicted on him by an unfair world; Alpine, haunted by images of Saint Francis of Assisi, struggles to overcome the self-inflicted harms resulting from his own poor choices.
The Assistant plays the boredom of working in a store where hours pass without a single customer and the slow process of wooing a reluctant woman against sudden, seemingly Deus ex machina acts of criminality and violence as the push and pull on Frank as he works out who he is. The use of an omniscient third-person narrator is particularly effective, subtly providing the reader multiple perspectives to highlight the contrasts between not just Bober and Alpine but also what each character of the novel portrays.
The Assistant is ultimately a redemption story which focuses on the worthiness of faith, regardless of whether one is rewarded,