SOURCE: Alter, Iska. “The Fixer, The Tenants, and the Historical Perspective.” In The Good Man Dilemma: Social Criticism in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud, pp. 154-73. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1981.
In the following essay, Alter explores differences in Malamud's interpretation of historical significance in The Fixer, which Alter categorizes as a novel of “Jewish historicism,” and The Tenants, which he calls a “work of a disillusioned American idealist.”
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