PROJECTION OF 'SUFFERING HUMANITY' THROUGH CHARACTER – PORTRAYAL OF YAKOV AND MORRIS AS 'FIXER' AND 'GROCER' IN SELECT NOVELS OF BERNARD MALAMUD: AN APPRAISAL

This paper attempts to project how the moral and insanity of modern man has stimulated Bernard Malamud, the Jewish-American fictionist, to reiterate the need for human values in society and how he upholds the dignity of man by unmasking man’s hidden potential and presenting human relationships and moral responsibility as the only alternative to the cancerous values that are found eating up the society. It beautifully describes how the chosen protagonists like yakov and Morris encounter suffering to make explicit to the world that they are indeed the chosen people of God bringing home the point that it is suffering which is the point of convergence that binds the sea of humanity together and a suffering man is, no doubt, humane in all respects