A_Bernard_Malamud_Reader

A Bernard Malamud Reader A Bernard Malamud Reader Seen against the crumbling of Yiddish culture, Bernard Malamud is the most enigmatic, even mysterious, of American Jewish writes. Bernard Malamud is the author of four novels and two volumes of short stories, he has received several National prizes. He has been appraised as a special sort of genre- writer, dealing with the "laughter through tears," the habits of life, exotic to outsiders, of immigrant Jews, an ethnic group considered to stand in a marginal relation to American sciety at large. Bernard Malamuds "Jewishness" as he understands and above all feels it, is one of teh principal sources of value in his work as it effects both his conception of experience in general, and his conception of imaginative writing in particular. I recently read a short story by Malamud called, "The Magic Barrel." A jewish trait I noticed while reading Malamuds short story is how he demonstrates his feeling for human suffering on the one hand and for a life of value, order, and dignity on the other. “The Magic Barrel” cleary demonstrates Malamud’s style of writing. Of all Malamud’s stories, surely the most masterful is “The Magic Barrel,” perhaps the best story I have read written by salzman, magic, , malamud, finkle, barrel, story, short, malamud’s, student, stella, picture, one, leo, bernard, particular, life, first, american, turn, suffering, stories, matchmaker, malamuds, love, jews, daughter, believe, although, about, yiddish, yet, years, written, writer, wild, white, while, value, types, two, together, thus, style, somehow, should, shoes, settings, schlemiel