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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A Jew in Czarist Russia was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy; it was a cause célèbre out of which Malamud has constructed a memorable tale of one man's nightmare...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit...
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...Your review of Malamud's The Fixer [Sept. 9] focuses its critical beam upon a nonexistent work: the "contemporary American" novel that the reviewer wishes Malamud had written. The book is judged in terms of what it is not, and therefore is found to have "missed." There is nothing more contemporary than Malamud's theme; that of identity. Within the "innocent-guilty" framework is embedded the hard, solid nut of Yakov's stubbornness: I am what I know is true. Malamud speaks for contemporary Americans as well as for one Russian Jew. Man's inner quantum...
...Americans want a tragedy with a happy ending, Malamud will not supply it. But he has achieved something comparable-a tragedy, if that is possible, with a humanistic ending. His drama is of a martyred, muddling man; the death of his reasonable hero is also the death of the unreasonable men who have caused it. It is only a pity that this stranger is set down in a land and a time that are also strange to the reader...