Two Fables

Title

en_US Two Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Signed by Malamud

en_US Bernard Malamud

Creator

en_US Malamud, Bernard See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:51Z

en_US 1999-07

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US The two fables here, The Jewbird and Talking Horse, are set by hand in Garamond and were published by Bennington College as part of the celebrations that marked the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the College. The two pieces apparently appeared first in 1963 and 1973, respectively, and were first published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. I had been watching for a copy of Malamud's two fables for some time, and I am happy to have found this beautiful copy. The Jewbird is a story of the skinny bird Schwartz who flies into the life of the Harry Cohen family in a New York apartment. The presence of this talking bird who is running from Anti-Semites sets up all sorts of fascinating dynamics. The story does not end happily. Talking Horse is something of a Kafka Metamorphosis. The beginning of the story asks Am I a man in a horse or a horse that talks like a man? This horse/man, Abramowitz, performs in a circus act with the mute Goldberg, who wants no questions or deviations from the routine. Their circus act, paradoxically, is a series of moronic joke answers and questions called Ask Me Another. Abramowitz wants to be free and even breaks out into telling that to circus audiences, who do not know what to make of it. This piece has a happy and surprising ending.

Identifier

en_US 3603 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78965

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Bennington College

en_US Pawlet, VT

Subject

en_US PS3563.A4 T86 1978 See all items with this value

en_US Bernard Malamud See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole