MALAMUD (Bernard, 1914-1986, American Novelist and Short Story Writer)

Autograph Letter Signed to fellow novelist Aubrey Hodes thanking him for his letter and saying he wishes he “could be of assistance to you, but except for a Hasidic tale or two, my knowledge of Martin Buber derives from articles I have read about him. Given a little more leisure time in the future, I intend to read in his works. I had no idea that Buber had written a novel, that’s very interesting....”, 1 side 4to., Brown’s Hotel headed paper, Dover Street, London, 6th April

Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Martin BUBER (1878-1965) was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli Philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.

Item Date:  1967

Stock No:  42348      £75

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