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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
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Værker af Bernard Malamud

The Fixer (1966) 2,264 eksemplarer
The Natural (1952) 2,012 eksemplarer
The Assistant (1957) 1,569 eksemplarer
The Magic Barrel: Stories (1955) 714 eksemplarer
The Tenants (1971) — Forfatter — 559 eksemplarer
Dubin's Lives (1979) 512 eksemplarer
The Complete Stories (1997) 481 eksemplarer
A New Life (1961) 407 eksemplarer
Den yderste dag (1982) 381 eksemplarer
Pictures of Fidelman (1969) 252 eksemplarer
The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1981) 218 eksemplarer
Rembrandt's Hat (1973) 214 eksemplarer
Idiots First (1963) 201 eksemplarer
A Malamud Reader (1967) 59 eksemplarer
Talking Horse (1980) 33 eksemplarer
Bernard Malamud Selected Stories (1985) 17 eksemplarer
The Magic Barrel / Idiots First (1978) 15 eksemplarer
Penguin Modern Stories 1 (1969) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Racconti (2008) 9 eksemplarer
The Jewbird {story} (1980) 8 eksemplarer
Cuentos reunidos (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Los Premios Pulitzer de Novela Vol.VIII (1971) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Tutti i racconti (2019) 3 eksemplarer
Le meilleur (2015) 3 eksemplarer
הדיירים 3 eksemplarer
L'homme dans le tiroir (1980) 3 eksemplarer
Two fables 2 eksemplarer
A Summer's Reading 2 eksemplarer
Tamirci (2013) 2 eksemplarer
The Prison {story} 1 eksemplar
Ein neues Leben 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
Cuentos (1901) 1 eksemplar
Kiev'deki Adam (2015) 1 eksemplar
Το μαγικό βαρέλι (1994) 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
Die Mieter 1 eksemplar
Angel Levine 1 eksemplar
℗L'℗uomo di Kiev (2017) 1 eksemplar
Fate and The Magic Barrel (1992) 1 eksemplar
העוזר 1 eksemplar
Nowe życie 1 eksemplar
Commesso (Il) 1 eksemplar
Malamud Bernard 1 eksemplar
Twenty Stories 1 eksemplar
The Tenants {video} 1 eksemplar
Sihirli Fıçı (2019) 1 eksemplar
O bode expiatório 1 eksemplar
Four Short Stories 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Bidragyder — 760 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 743 eksemplarer
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragyder — 461 eksemplarer
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragyder — 368 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Bidragyder — 365 eksemplarer
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Bidragyder — 362 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Bidragyder — 335 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Bidragyder — 267 eksemplarer
Great Jewish Short Stories (1963) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver239 eksemplarer
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Bidragyder — 213 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Bidragyder — 188 eksemplarer
9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1964) — Bidragyder — 160 eksemplarer
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Bidragyder — 152 eksemplarer
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver152 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998) — Bidragyder — 130 eksemplarer
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver129 eksemplarer
The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction (1992) — Bidragyder — 124 eksemplarer
American Short Stories (1976) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver95 eksemplarer
Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex (1999) — Bidragyder — 86 eksemplarer
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Bidragyder — 62 eksemplarer
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
Great Baseball Stories (1979) — Bidragyder — 47 eksemplarer
Point of Departure (1967) — Bidragyder — 46 eksemplarer
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Modern Jewish stories (1963) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1969 (1969) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1959 (1959) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1960 (1960) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
The Angel Levine [1970 film] (1970) — Writer — 10 eksemplarer
Mystery in the Mainstream: An Anthology of Literary Crimes (1986) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
An Anthology of Angels (1996) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Best modern short stories (1965) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver7 eksemplarer
Moderne joodse verhalen (1964) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Life Styles (2001) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Modern Choice 2 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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The Assistant is a book you brood over after finishing, because the questions its characters ask—what does it mean to be a Jew?—and the questionable actions they take—working for a man you have robbed at gunpoint, having sex with a woman you have just rescued from being raped—are the powerful relics of purpose-driven writing, of a time when books were serious examinations of some aspect of society, rather than formulaic accumulations of ideology.

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, while leaving unresolved what Frank gains in converting to Judaism, relinquishing the metaphorical vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience he has taken in choosing to run Bober's store for a life of suffering implied through Bober's example.
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skavlanj | 28 andre anmeldelser | Feb 10, 2024 |
Reason Read: TIOLI, ROOT

I received only the short story The Magic Barrel and that is what I am reviewing. The story is of a young man who has been busy in college and has no social life. He contacts a marriage broker, Salzman to remedy this problem. Salzman offers a young window (rejected), an older lady, school teacher, and a young girl with a lame foot. Finkler rejects all of these. He eventually agrees to meet the school teacher and comes to the realization that he has never loved any one even God. Later he finds a small picture of a young girl that he falls in love with and insists that she is the one. Salzman tells him that she is not the one. Later he agrees to let them meet (he is her father) and the girl is dressed in a red dress and white shoes. Her father is behind the wall saying the prayer of the dead. The ending is ambiguous. Is this girl trouble, is this the new generation of Americans, or was it a trick of the father to marry off his daughter.… (mere)
 
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Kristelh | 9 andre anmeldelser | Jul 17, 2023 |
I was lead to this novel by comments that J. Epstein made in his biographical essays, mostly running down Saul Bellow. While reading it, I suddenly realized that I had seen the movie of it in the late 60's with the YPS of TBE. Sometimes I think that it is a good idea to be reminded of what imprisonment is like, before we give our consent to locking up every African-American who has some marijuana.
 
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markm2315 | 33 andre anmeldelser | Jul 1, 2023 |
This is a set of short stories by one of America's most gifted authors. Most of the stories are allegorical, but reference everyday situations from Malamud's childhood in New York. The characters are dynamic and humorous and each story is rich enough to stand on its own.
 
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rebcamuse | 9 andre anmeldelser | Jun 25, 2023 |

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