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The Complete Stories

Bernard Malamud

Paperback | Pages: 656 pages

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Title	:	The Complete Stories
Author	:	Bernard Malamud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Paperback Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 656 pages
Published	:	October 12th 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Literature. American

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BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-86) is considered a modern master of the short story, ranked with Chekhov and Isaac Babel. The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud brings together all of Malamud's published stories--from the classic early story "The Magic Barrel," in which he refashioned the American short story in the Yiddish-infected idiom of his boyhood, to later works such as "Rembrandt's Hat" and "Alma Redeemed,' which dramatize the relationship between life and art with matchless intensity and dark comedy. These fifty-three stories are full of the searching eloquence that characterizes this beloved American writer.

Contents:
Armistice --
Spring rain --
The grocery store --
Benefit performance --
The place is different now --
Steady customer --
The literary life of Laban Goldman --
The cost of living --
The prison --
The first seven years --
The death of me --
The bill --
The loan --
A confession of murder --
Riding pants --
The girl of my dreams --
The magic barrel --
The mourners --
Angel Levine --
A summer's reading --
Take pity --
The elevator --
An apology --
The last Mohican --
The lady of the lake --
Behold the key --
The maid's shoes --
Idiots first --
Still life --
Suppose a wedding --
Life is better than death --
The jewbird --
Black is my favorite color --
Naked nude --
The German refugee --
A choice of profession --
A pimp's revenge --
Man in the drawer --
My son the murderer --
Pictures of the artist --
An exorcism --
Glass blower of Venice --
God's wrath --
Talking horse --
The letter --
The silver crown --
Notes from a lady at a dinner party --
In retirement --
Rembrandt's hat --
A wig --
The model --
A lost grave --
Zora's noise --
In Kew Gardens --
Alms redeemed.

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ISBN:	0374525757 (ISBN13: 9780374525750)
Edition Language:	English

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55 stories spanning a 45 year career. Aside from a few stinker stories from the 1960s and 1970s this collection is very enjoyable. As good as most of these stories are, however, none of them equal the elegance and beauty of his prose in the novel, "The Assistant". Still, recommended.

If you want to read THE definitive collection of Short Stories of the 20th century - Malamud is your guy.You can read pretty much everything he wrote here..."Life is for the Living"..."A Pimp's Revenge"...Will take your breath away...!

I really wanted to like Malamud; however, to me most of the stories fell short. If you like short stories, look no further than Stefan Zweig - he is the master. The stories by Malamud simply seamed to be lacking in all aspects.

From this collection I have read the following: The First Seven Years, The Magic Barrel, The Mourners, Angel Levine, Take Pity, The Last Mohican, Idiots First, The Jewbird, Man in the Drawer, and The Silver Crown

Many superb, unalloyed, slice-of-existentially-depressing-life tales. I particularly like his stories set in Italy, including the Fidelman narratives.

Bernard, you will deny your Jewishness three times before the cock crows!Sorry, just a random reflection on "The Lady in the Lake," which is pretty much bunk--but bunk with a point!From what I've gathered, Malamud has about an ounce or two of cleverness, but that's pretty much it. Besides that, he's a mainstream hack who writes about ordinary schlubs who fantasize about Italian aristocratic beauties, run delicatessens, or contemplate suicide. Or maybe all three. His intentions are probably good.