Bernard Malamud의 인본주의적 가치지향의 소설세계 = Bernard malamud's fictional world of inclination toward the humanistic values

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This paper aims to illuminate the characteristics of the novels and short stories world by Bernard Malamud, a Jewish-American novelist and short story writer, creating a unified vision based on the values of humanism.
In the world of Malamud's fictions, the humanistic values-pity, compassion, understanding, love, responsibility, etc.-give meaning to one's life. This suggests that his fictional world blends despair with hope, pain with endurance, and suffering with moral growth. It is through trial by love and suffering that Malamud's most protagonists can transcend their self-centeredness and turn themselves to other people's needs. So their spiritual growth and rebirth involve such universal human values as pity, compassion, understanding, the power of love, respect in human relationships, acceptance of responsibility and of the burden of meaningful suffering and self-sacrifice for others.
I conclude here, through his characters, that Bernard Malamud expresses the beauty and the dignity of the human spirit in the face of hardship, injustice, and the existential anguish of life in our time so that we can assume that his fictional world is inclinable to be more broadly humanistic.

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