The Complete Stories

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To have this much of Malamud available in one volume is something like a guilty pleasure ... His stories, like Chekhov's, are edifying in their tragic sense and delightful in their comedy, which seems to me the most we can ask of tation." -RÓBERT STONE, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-86) is considered a modern master of the short story, ranked with Chekhov and Isaac Bábel. The Complete Stories of Bemard Malamud brings together all of Malamud's published stories-from the classic early story "The Magic Barrel," in which he refashioned the American short story in the Yiddish-inflected idiom of his boyhood, to later works such as "Rembrandt's Hat" and "Alma Redeemed," which dramatize the relationship between life and art with matchless intensity and dark comedy. These fifty-three stories are full of the searching eloquence that characterizes this beloved American writer. "Malamud grips the reader as tightly as a vise, his vision as honest, unsparing and tender as... Tovább

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To have this much of Malamud available in one volume is something like a guilty pleasure ... His stories, like Chekhov's, are edifying in their tragic sense and delightful in their comedy, which seems to me the most we can ask of tation." -RÓBERT STONE, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-86) is considered a modern master of the short story, ranked with Chekhov and Isaac Bábel. The Complete Stories of Bemard Malamud brings together all of Malamud's published stories-from the classic early story "The Magic Barrel," in which he refashioned the American short story in the Yiddish-inflected idiom of his boyhood, to later works such as "Rembrandt's Hat" and "Alma Redeemed," which dramatize the relationship between life and art with matchless intensity and dark comedy. These fifty-three stories are full of the searching eloquence that characterizes this beloved American writer. "Malamud grips the reader as tightly as a vise, his vision as honest, unsparing and tender as the gods'." -RICHÁRD BERNSTEIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES " Malamud [is], I think, one of the best American short story writers of this century. He reminds me, strangely enough, of the implacable Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor, one of Bern's true colleagues (and his admirer), for they share the sense that eterni" ty's always föcused down to this moment, this choice: will one do justice to those close to us, here, now?" -JAY CANTOR, THE NEW YORK TIMES BERNARD MALAMUD alsó wrote seven novels -The Natural (1952), The Assistant(] 957), A New Life (1961), The Fixer (1967), The Tenants (1971), Dubin's Lives (1979), God's Grace (1982), and the unfinished The People. He won two National Book Awards (for The Magic Barrel and The Fixer) and the Pulitzer Prize (for The Fixer). Born in Brooklyn, New York, he taught for many years at Bennington College. Vissza