从迷失到觉悟──《修配工》中雅科夫之变形记.pdfVIP

Europe become rich ingredients to his remarkably creative works. As a productive writer, Malamud initiated his career as a writer in 1950 when he was in Oregon State College. His stories appeared in such magazines and newspapers as Commentary, Discovery and The New Yorker. His first novel, The Natural (1952), which tells the story of a baseball player, caught the spotlight among the literary community and his second novel, The Assistant (1957), based upon his childhood experiences behind the counter of his parents’ store, turned out to be a huge success overnight and Malamud was widely recognized as a major writer. This novel won him the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Daroff Fiction Award of the Jewish Book 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 these stories and others in Idiots First (1963), his second story collection, and his novel Pictures of Fidelman (1969) as well, reflect his experiences with his wife in Italy. His career as a writer reached its zenith when the novel The Fixer (1966) was published. It won him both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for literature. The story of a Christ-like Jew suffering for his own people was so successful that only one year later a film version made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hit the big screen. His later novels, the ethnical The Tenants (1971), his autobiographical Dubin’s Lives (1979) and the last allegorical God’s Grace (1982) were also warmly welcomed and heatedly discussed among critics. Though Malamud draws a lot upon his close connections with Jewish people in his writing, it is mistaken to assum