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...DUBIN'S LIVES by Bernard Malamud is another example of the male menopause novel, a form that has become increasingly popular in recent years with such authors as Saul Bellow, John Updike and John Fowles. Men in their mid-life crisis get bored with their careers, fall out of love with their wives and in love with younger women, suddenly and unexpectedly find that they have lost control of their lives...
FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever...
FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
...novels offer a character who grows convincingly from page to page. Dubin's Lives presents not only the hero but the women around him. Kitty, Fanny, Dubin's daughter Maud all pull away from their orbits around Dubin and strike out in directions he cannot predict. Without uttering a single polemic, Malamud builds one of the sharpest images of women's liberation in contemporary fiction...
Independence cannot be achieved without heartbreak. Everyone suffers, especially Dubin. Near the end, he mourns being "alone in the cosmos," and the course of the novel proves him right. Such knowledge is harsh, but the acquisition of it is tinged with exhilaration. Dubin knows what he knows but goes on living and working. Similarly, Malamud's fiction is a hedge against depression; it conveys pleasure through its artistry, through its deft translation of ideas into events and living, breathing characters. Life may be, as so many Malamud characters discover, a matter of taking the good with the bad. Dubin...