从迷失到觉醒──《修配工》中雅科夫之变形记.docx

Europe become rich ingredients to his remarkably creative works. As a productivewriter, Malamud initiated his career as a writer in 1950 when he was in Oregon StateCollege. His stories appeared in such magazines and newspapers as Commentary,Discovery and The New Yorker. His first novel, The Natural (1952), which tells thestory of a baseball player, caught the spotlight among the literary community and hissecond novel, The Assistant (1957), based upon his childhood experiences behind thecounter of his parents’ store, turned out to be a huge success overnight and Malamudwas widely recognized as a major writer. This novel won him the Rosenthal Award ofthe National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Daroff Fiction Award of the JewishBook Council of America. His first collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel(1958), which contained many well-known stories such as “The Lady of the Lake”and “The Last Mohican”, won Malamud his first National Book Award. Some of thesestories and others in Idiots First (1963), his second story collection, and his novelPictures of Fidelman (1969) as well, reflect his experiences with his wife in Italy. Hiscareer as a writer reached its zenith when the novel The Fixer (1966) was published. Itwon him both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for literature. The storyof a Christ-like Jew suffering for his own people was so successful that only one yearlater a film version made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hit the big screen. His laternovels, the ethnical The Tenants (1971), his autobiographical Dubin’s Lives (1979)and the last allegorical God’s Grace (1982) were also warmly welcomed and heatedlydiscussed among critics.Though Malamud draws a lot upon his close connections with Jewish people inhis writing, it is mistaken to assume that he is a religious writer. According to his ownconfirmation, he even did not learn of Judaism until he was an adult. Therefore,Malamud is a secular Jew whose Jewishness is an ethnic identity and moralperspe