SOURCE: Briganti, Chiara. “Mirrors, Windows and Peeping Toms: Women as the Object of Voyeuristic Scrutiny in Bernard Malamud's A New Life and Dubin's Lives.1” Studies in American Jewish Literature 3 (1983): 151-65.
In the following essay, Briganti contends that women in Malamud's fiction generally exist only to provide the momentum or impetus for the male characters to reach self-knowledge.
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