Author(s)

Zichen Wen ¹, Rongying Zheng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Foreign Language, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China

Corresponding Author

Zichen Wen

ABSTRACT

Bernard Malamud, a renowned Jewish writer in the realm of contemporary American literature, prominently featured Jewish individuals as central characters in his works. His narratives mostly revolved around the portrayal of Jewish suffering, serving as a means to explore the universal predicament of human life. This study aims to integrate historical context, reasoning, and the writer's personal experiences in order to understand the theme of immense suffering throughout Malamud's literary works. This thesis outlined the annals of Jewish suffering. Persecution, wounds from bloodshed, and war were the causes of their physical and mental suffering. Concentrating on the writer's unfortunate personal experience, further excavating the path of salvation through digestive suffering. The Magic Barrel demonstrates the Jew's difficult existential state and painful psychological emotions in the suffering state, and uses it as a symbol to illustrate the struggle for human survival.

KEYWORDS

Malamud; Suffering Motif; Salvation; Jewishness

CITE THIS PAPER

Zichen Wen, Rongying Zheng, The Suffering in Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 56-62. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070509.

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