The Fixer

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We FIXER
Bernard Malamud
We believe The Fixer to be a great
novel. Bernard Malamud has put a
lifetime of working at his craft into
this extraordinary book. What makes
the difference here is that the author's
consummate skill has been applied to
a great theme—injustice—and em-
bodied in a great story.
The Fixer is the story of a little
man, a handy-man, who becomes a
hero before our eyes. Yakov Bok is the
last man in the world who wants to be
a hero; it's an honor he feels he could
do without. But fate and history and
the times in which one lives follow
their own inexorable laws. Yakov lives
in Tsarist Russia in Kiev during a
virulent period of anti-Semitism, and
when the body of a dead boy is found
in a cave, the local Black Hundreds
group accuses the Jews of his murder.
From the Jews to a Jew is only a short
step: Yakov is arrested for a crime he
did not commit. In the long suffering
that follows his refusal to "confess,"
Yakov is transformed from a... Tovább

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We FIXER
Bernard Malamud
We believe The Fixer to be a great
novel. Bernard Malamud has put a
lifetime of working at his craft into
this extraordinary book. What makes
the difference here is that the author's
consummate skill has been applied to
a great theme—injustice—and em-
bodied in a great story.
The Fixer is the story of a little
man, a handy-man, who becomes a
hero before our eyes. Yakov Bok is the
last man in the world who wants to be
a hero; it's an honor he feels he could
do without. But fate and history and
the times in which one lives follow
their own inexorable laws. Yakov lives
in Tsarist Russia in Kiev during a
virulent period of anti-Semitism, and
when the body of a dead boy is found
in a cave, the local Black Hundreds
group accuses the Jews of his murder.
From the Jews to a Jew is only a short
step: Yakov is arrested for a crime he
did not commit. In the long suffering
that follows his refusal to "confess,"
Yakov is transformed from a little man
into a big one.
Though Mr. Malamud's novel deals
with a particular form of injustice, his
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theme is universal. Any innocent vic-
tim of a miscarriage of justice, whether
his name is Vanzetti or Dreyfus or
Timothy Evans, would illustrate the
theme equally well. In the case of The
Fixer, the victim is a very minor mem-
ber of society. If he were any further
down on the social scale, he would be
over the abyss. Yet this is a man you
will never forget because his story, as
Bernard Malamud tells it in The
Fixer, will last as long as books are
read. Vissza