SOURCE: Malin, Irving. “Portrait of the Artist in Slapstick: Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman.” Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing 24, no. 1 (fall 1980): 121-38.
In the following essay, Malin suggests autobiographical elements in Pictures of Fidelman that allow Malamud to explore his role as an artist.
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