5/24/2023 0 Comments The Natural by Bernard Malamud![]() ![]() Between 19, Malamud published seven novels and four volumes of stories, with a remarkably broad fictional range, both in terms of genre and themes. Malamud was critically acclaimed for his stylistic mastery of language infused with poetic images, the contrast of American English and Yiddish undertones, and his rendering of understated immigrant characters, often failing Jews who embody a humanist ethos or a mythical self-transcendence. ![]() The long Oregon decade (1949–1961) produced his first three novels, and some of his most acclaimed short fiction-a career that granted him a significant place in the American postwar literary canon, along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth often labeled as a “Jewish American” generation. From 1961 to 1966, already an acclaimed writer, he taught creative writing at Bennington College, Vermont. ![]() A high school teacher in New York City in the 1940s, he was hired by Oregon State College (today OSU) in 1949 to teach freshman composition. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, City College (BA, 1936), and then Columbia University. Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) was born of Russian Jewish immigrant parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York. ![]()
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