Analysis of the Narrative Structure of the Novels of Bernard Malamud

Abstract

English literary world of fiction is full of stories that follow multiple narrative structures. Bernard Malamud, a Russian Jew, migrated to America, exhibited varied strains of existential crisis in his works as he wrote in the post-World War-II era. He has created compelling narrative structures in his novels and stories to unleash complexities and tensions. The age in which he wrote too provided him the requisite substance to set his tensions across and delineate through convincing characters. Yiddish symbolism, fantasy, mysticism, surrealism, and reality- all are conglomerated in the Malamudian narrative structure.