Bibliograph

Bernard Malamud reading "The mourners" from The magic barrel, from Great American authors read from their works, volume 2, Bernard Malamud

Type

Label

Bernard Malamud reading "The mourners" from The magic barrel, from Great American authors read from their works, volume 2, Bernard Malamud

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

technical information on music

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Bernard Malamud reading "The mourners" from The magic barrel

Medium

sound recording audiobook download

Responsibility statement

Bernard Malamud

Sub title

from Great American authors read from their works, volume 2

Summary

"The Mourners" comes from Malamud's National Book Award-winning collection, The Magic Barrel, about poor immigrant Jews-grocers, tailors, janitors, cobblers-whose suffering transcends the particular to become universal. Set in a cheap rooming house whose landlord and janitor join forces to evict a poor and aged Jewish tenant, the story ends with Gruber, the landlord, morally transformed by the sight of his tenant's misery. As compassion replaces cruelty, the two men mourn together. In Malamud's reading, the sudden descent of grace on the adversaries emerges with poignant force

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable

resource.variantTitle

Mourners

Contributor