Bernard Malamud always had some element of magic in his works. As we close down the 500 nativities, I began to wonder why, so I did his chart. He won two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for The Natural” that became a Hollywood Movie with charismatic Robert Redford.
Hollywood did another of his short stories, The Angel Levine, with Harry Belafonte, but it is rather forgettable. You can listen it to below, it is rather short., and if you subscribe to Tcm.com view there, but it has little to do with the story, unfortunately. The one they should do is the Magic Barrel. You can read that here.
The Spiritual
On the basis of ”The Assistant” and ”The Fixer,” critics began to think of Mr. Malamud as a ”Jewish writer” along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Mr. Malamud, said that he found the label of ”Jewish writer” inadequate for the three writers shared more differences than similarities. In his case, Jewishness was more a spiritual than a cultural or religious quality.New York Times obit for Mr. Malamud
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