The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud
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Author: Bernard MalamudEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-12
ISBN: 0374525757
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Book Review: "The Last Mohican"
Summary: 5 Stars
This collection reveals the genius of Malamud as a short story writer second to none. The Georgia Catholic author Flannery O'Connor saw this clearly when, after reading Malamud, she remarked wittily on why Jewish writers were "different." In her words, "They're smarter than us." To my mind, the signal story in this collection is the too little known "The Last Mohican." This comical Arthur Fidelman story, about a failed Jewish artist who's come to Italy to write a critical study on the Christian artist Giotto, is itself a profound Judeo-Christian adventure - with Tolstoy's views on art thrown in - involving a hilarious but moving "conversion" in its central figure. The story's clear implication is the paradoxical idea that gain often involves a loss of sorts. One can see here when reading, say, her story "Good Country People," what the great Flannery O'Connor learned as a writer from her equally great predecessor in the short story, Bernard Malamud.
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