文化的认同 人性的回归

马拉穆德是位杰出的美国犹太作家,其作品主要描写了其同胞的生活际遇,但是他不仅描写犹太人民的生活,更描写生活在美国的普通人的生活,其作品是普遍人性的展示。作家著名的小说《店员》中主人公,意大利异族流浪青年弗兰克从打劫杂货店主犹太人莫里斯到转变为其继承者和皈依犹太教,显示了他隐含在刻画犹太人民生活表象下的人性关怀。

The Cultural Conversion and Return of Humanity

Bernard Malamud, whose works mostly depict the life of his ethnic fellowmen, was among the most prominent American Jewish writers, as too much criticism has observed. The essay is a case study of his prize - winner The Assistant that focuses on the transformation of the non - Jewish Frank, an Italian vagrant, from one of the robbers of the Jewish grocer Morris to the successor of the grocery and his conversion to the Judaism at the level of culture, and thereby explores the writer's concern over the universal human nature.