Bernard Malamud

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This paper looks at the early childhood and upbringing of the famous writer, Bernard Malamud. It analyzes his first writings and looks at how his unique style and topic choice developed and matured over the many years of his writing career.

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"Malamud's writings are very interesting and contain old world flair (Biography Resource Center, 2004). Kramer (2004) writes, "Most of Malamud's fiction describes in a humorous but sympathetic way the misfortunes of city dwellers, particularly Jews". His works contain many characters that have problems, frequent misunderstandings, and misplaced triumphs, rise into the realm of fantasy and sometimes include a lesson to be learned. Malamud wrote of about what he knew such as the poor simple people and about how he grew up during the Depression. His characters are all people of trade, and include butchers, bakers, egg peddlers, candle makers and tailors who work with the sweat of the brow, through tears and rage as they compete to beating back whatever it is that threatens to take away their livelihood."

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