Fathers and Sons in the fiction of Bernard Malamud : From the Early Short Stories to The Assistant
著者
三重野,佳子
(MIENO,Yoshiko)
別府大学食物栄養科学部
出版地
別府
出版者
別府大学会
日付
出版年
: -
作成日
:
更新日
:
記録日
: 2011-02-28
上位タイトル
別府大学紀要
(Memoirs of Beppu university).
No.48
(2007.
02)
,p.A53-
A63
識別番号
ISSN
02864983
抄録
?In many of Bernard Malamud's novels, the fathers have no son, while the sons have no father. In a sense, this absence of father for boys and that of son for fathers seem to reflect the breakdown of traditional father-son relationship in Jewish-American society at the time. In The Assistant, however, an Italian assistant, Frank, seems to follow in the footsteps of a Jewish grocer, Morris, actually and spiritually. Malamud once mentioned three short stories as the source of The Assistant : "The Cost of Living, " "The First Seven Years" and "The Place Is Different Now." These stories and similar stories included in PUS are analyzed to make clear how the father-son relationships in the short stories are developed into Morris and Frank in The Assistant and what the relationship signifies in the early fiction.
