Rambling Raconteur | The Assistant by Bernard Malamud (1957 National Book Award: Crime and Redemption) @ramblingraconteur1616 | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A discussion of Malamud’s 1957 novel.

0:00 Introduction and Summary
2:39 Ethics and Redemption
7:43 Natural Dialogue
11:22 Context in Malamud’s Works
12:27 Significance of Ending
16:27 Recommended if you Like

Recommended if you Like:
The Natural, A New Life, The Tenants by Malamud
Take Pity, The Jewbird, The Magic Barrel by Malamud
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Novels of Cynthia Ozick
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Letting Go by Roth
American Pastoral by Roth
The Human Stain by Roth
The Stories of Jacob by Thomas Mann, my discussion: youtu.be/AZ9JciETbm0
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Native Son by Richard Wright, my discussion: youtu.be/S8h1pqvRXm4
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Earth by Emile Zola
Angels by Denis Johnson
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

#booktube
#bernardmalamud
#nationalbookaward