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- In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn.
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Malamud began the initial composition of the novel in 1969 and completed it in 1971. Its plot concerns a rivalry between two writers—one of them a Jew and the other an African-American— who are the last two persons remaining in a soon to be condemned apartment building. [4]
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Oct 3, 1971 · Malamud ends “The‐ Tenants” on a frozen scream, a cry for mercy from the Dickensian owner of the tenement, who wants to tear the whole building down.
The Tenants is the first of Malamud’s novels to employ postmodern techniques of the kind attributable to the influence of Joyce, Gide, Kafka, and experimental poetry. The narrative is sometimes broken by scraps of Willie’s writing salvaged from the garbage, and by visions that drift in space as much as in the characters’ minds, and it ...
Malamud's women such imperfections often add to their sexual attraction. (In The Assistant, the male protagonist is sexually excited by the girl's being bowl egged.) The woman character in The Tenants is less important than the second man in the love triangle: Lesser-Irene-Willie. She represents love, which
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- A Reading of Bernard Malamud's "The Tenants"
In The Tenants, Malamud blends gritty realism, absurd comedy, and fantasy to deal with both social issues and the nature of the creative writing process. The setting of the novel is an...
With The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud ostensibly addresses himself to the most urgent problems besetting contemporary American society. Although based on authentic details of the Mendel Beiliss blood libel case in Czarist Russia, The Fixer (1966) was still concerned with other times and other places. The years during which The Tenants was
Jan 1, 2001 · In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn.
