For Malamud the Holocaust evokes the tearful past. Bellow brings the Holocaust into the pleasure-ridden present. Perhaps it’s because I am much more of a fan of Malamud’s work than Bellow’s, but I found this to be humorous – almost outrageous. First, Fuchs counters the first sentence...
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments...