Word: malamud
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...taken by surprise, he had agreed to come to Cambridge to talk about Rabbit Redux, and whatever else struck him to speak of. It was one week after he'd been hailed by the Times as one of the great contemporary American authors...right up there with Roth, Bellow, Malamud and Mailer. (No longer would he be the fall goy for all of New York's literary establishment...
...Tenants, Malamud (8) 10. Maurice, Forster
...Tenants, Malamud...
...uncertain an affirmation as Malamud has ever written. In past stories and novels such as The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, suffering usually stretched a character's awareness of life's tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's flesh, and the author labors to discern some faint compassion in the violence. Like Lesser, Malamud too has had trouble finishing his book. The difficulty is underscored by an epilogue in which Levenspiel, the landlord whom circumstance has also made a victim of the combat, sets up a liturgical cry for mercy...
...Tenant is not really a novel (or parable), but a bleak, relentless vision. It is full of that blend of realism and fantasy, comedy and pathos that distinguishes Malamud as one of America's best writers. That it does not end with a warm rush of saving compassion indicates that he is one of America's most honest writers as well. · R. Z. Sheppard