Bernard Malamud : a centennial tribute / edited by Victoria Aarons and Gustavo Sanchez Canales.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aarons, Victoria, editor.

Sánchez Canales, Gustavo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malamud, Bernard--Criticism and interpretation.

Malamud, Bernard.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxii, 320 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American Jewish protagonist and a newly emergent voice that came to define American letters and has continued to influence writers for over half a century. A tribute to Malamud in honor of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, this collection is international in scope, compiling diverse essays from the United States, France, Germany, Greece, and Spain, and demonstrating the wide range of scholarship and approaches to Malamud's fiction. Bernard Malamud is a comprehensive collection that celebrates a voice that helped to shape the last fifty years of literary works. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I U.S. Voices

Introduction: "Moved by a Memory": Bernard Malamud's Literary Landscape / Victoria Aarons Aarons, Victoria 3

Novels

1 The Beard Makes the Man: Bernard Malamud's A New Life / Leah Garrett Garrett, Leah 17

2 "I Shit My Death": From the Providential to the Excremental in The Fixer / Holli Levitsky Levitsky, Holli 31

3 The Jew as Vampire in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer / Andrew M. Gordon Gordon, Andrew M. 45

4 Malamud's The Tenants and the Problem of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel / Timothy Parrish Parrish, Timothy 52

5 Unbound and Un-bodied: Reading Race in Malamud's The Tenants / Jessica Lang Lang, Jessica 70

Short Stories

6 Midrash, Memory, and "Miracles or Near-Miracles": Bernard Malamud's All-Too-Human Project / Victoria Aarons Aarons, Victoria 89

Part II European Voices

Introduction: Encountering Bernard Malamud through an I-Thou Relationship / Gustavo Sánchez Canales Canales, Gustavo Sánchez 109

7 Rethinking the Discourse of Suffering in Bernard Malamud's Fiction / Pilar Alonso Alonso, Pilar 119

8 "What's in a Name?": Aptronyms and Archetypes in Bernard Malamud's The Assistant and The Fixer / Gustavo Sanchez Canales Canales, Gustavo Sanchez 135

9 Fixing Bernard Malamud's The Fixer through Translation: From El hombre de Kiev (1967) to El reparador (2011) / Martín Urdiales Shaw Shaw, Martín Urdiales 151

10 Dostoevsky Lawrence, Malamud: Malamud's Heroes, Facing the Twin Rejection of Identity and Sensuality / Rémi Astruc Astruc, Rémi, Alan Astro Astro, Alan 171

11 Writing on the Edge of Doom: Theological Reflections on Bernard Malamud's God's Grace / Till Kinzel Kinzel, Till 183

12 Seeking the Man behind the Text or a Biographical Approach to Bernard Malamud's Short Stories / Emilio Cañadas Rodriguez Rodriguez, Emilio Cañadas 197

13 Malamud's Short Fiction: Angels and Specters / Félix Martín Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Félix Martín 210

14 Bernard Malamud's and John Updike's Art Stories: The Act of Creation in "Still Life" and "Leaves" / Aristi Trendel Trendel, Aristi 231

15 Arthur Fidelman's Aesthetic Adventures and Malamud's Poetics Creativity / Theodora Tsimpouki Tsimpouki, Theodora 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index.

ISBN:

0814341144

9780814341148

OCLC:

935989266