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• Invention or Proclamation: Jewish Identity in the Stories of Bernard Malamud and Isaiah Speigel

  From: Journal of the Short Story in English

  Spring 19998,024 words Critical essay [(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Siebert and Sio-Castiñeira juxtapose the short stories of Malamud and those of the Polish writer Isaiah Spiegel in order to illuminate the ways in which Jewish literary...

• Style and Humanity in Malamud's Fiction

  Author:Marc L. RatnerFrom:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )

  20077,560 words Critical essay [(essay date summer 1964) In the following essay, Ratner explores the theme of suffering as a means to regeneration and enlightenment in Malamud's fiction, including The Assistant,The Magic Barrel,The Natural, and A New...

• Bernard Malamud: Overview

  Author:Jay L. HalioFrom:Reference Guide to Short Fiction

  1,009 words Critical essay Most of Bernard Malamud's short stories are love stories, though love stories of an unusual kind. They are not the typical Romeo and Juliet tales in which boy meets girl. They deal with different kinds of love—between...

• Idiots First

  Author:Robert SolotaroffFrom:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )

  200710,834 words Critical essay [(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Solotaroff investigates the characters, themes, and motifs central to Malamud's "folk ghetto" stories, including "Idiots First," "The Cost of Living," and "The Death of Me."]...