“How can one love Mahler if she best loves Wagner?”
“My time will come.”
Mahler diminished as he faded.
Alma felt he had handled her badly in her youth.
Yet there were moments she thought she still loved Mahler. She pictured him in a cemetery surrounded by his grave.
Alma favored cremation.
She was eighty-five when she died in 1964, older than King Lear.
Alma redeemed.
1984-85
Books by Bernard Malamud
THE NATURAL
THE ASSISTANT
THE MAGIC BARREL
A NEW LIFE
IDIOTS FIRST
THE FIXER
A MALAMUD READER
(edited and introduced by Philip Rahv)
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN
THE TENANTS
REMBRANDT’S HAT
DUBIN’S LIVES
GOD’S GRACE
THE STORIES OF BERNARD MALAMUD
THE PEOPLE AND UNCOLLECTED STORIES
THE COMPLETE STORIES
APPENDIX
Bibliography of Bernard Malamud’s Stories
IF Idiots First, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963
MB The Magic Barrel, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958
MR A Malamud Reader, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967
PF Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
PUS The People and Uncollected Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
RH Rembrandt’s Hat, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973
SBM The Stories of Bernard Malamud, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983
TF Two Fables: “The Jewbird” and “Talking Horse,” limited edition, Banyan
Press, Bennington College, 1978
ALMA REDEEMED. Commentary, July 1984.
AN APOLOGY. Commentary, November 1957.
ANGEL LEVINE. Commentary, December 1955. MB, SBM.
ARMISTICE. Written in Washington, D.C., in 1940; first appearance in PUS.
BEHOLD THE KEY. Commentary, May 1958. MB.
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE. Threshold, February 1943. PUS.
THE BILL. Commentary, April 1951. MB, SBM.
BLACK IS MY FAVORITE COLOR. The Reporter, July 18, 1963. IF, MR, SBM.
A CHOICE OF PROFESSION. Commentary, September 1963. IF.
A CONFESSION OF MURDER. Written in 1952; opening chapter of abandoned novel, The Man Nobody Could Lift. PUS.
THE COST OF LIVING. Harper’s Bazaar, March 1950. IF, SBM.
THE DEATH OF ME. World Review, April 1951. IF, SBM.
THE ELEVATOR. Paris Review, Fall 1989. Written in Italy in 1957. PUS.
A EXORCISM. Harper’s, December 1968. Revised by the author for SBM but not included by author; in PUS.
THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS. Partisan Review, September-October 1950. MB, MR, SBM.
THE GERMAN REFUGEE. Saturday Evening Post, September 14, 1963. Title in the magazine was “The Refugee.” IF, MR, SBM.
THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS. American Mercury, January 1953. MB, SBM.
GLASS BLOWER OF VENICE. First published in PF, 1969.
GOD’S WRATH. The Atlantic, February 1972. SBM.
THE GROCERY STORE. Written in 1943, first published in PUS.
IDIOTS FIRST. Commentary, December 1961. IF, SBM, MR.
IN KEW GARDENS. Partisan Review, double (anniversary) issue, Fall 1984-Winter 1985. PUS.
IN RETIREMENT. The Atlantic, March 1973. RH, SBM.
THE JEWBIRD. The Reporter, April 11, 1963. IF, MR, SBM, TF.
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. First published in MB, 1958.
THE LAST MOHICAN. Partisan Review, Spring 1958. MB, MR, PF, SBM.
THE LETTER. Esquire, August 1972. RH, SBM.
LIFE IS BETTER THAN DEATH. Esquire, May 1963. IF, SBM.
THE LITERARY LIFE OF LABAN GOLDMAN. Assembly, November 1943. PUS.
THE LOAN. Commentary, July 1952. MB, SBM.
A LOST GRAVE. Esquire, May 1985. PUS.
THE magic BARREL. Partisan Review, November 1954. MB, MR, SBM.
THE MAID’S SHOES. Partisan Review, Winter 1959. IF, MR, SBM.
MAN IN THE DRAWER. The Atlantic, April 1968. RH, SBM.
THE MODEL. The Atlantic, August 1983. SBM.
THE MOURNERS. Discovery, January 1955. MB, MR, SBM.
MY SON THE MURDERER. Esquire, November 1968. RH, SBM.
NAKED NUDE. Playboy, August 1963. IF, PF.
NOTES FROM A LADY AT A DINNER PARTY. Harper’s, February 1975. RH.
PICTURES OF THE ARTIST. The Atlantic, December 1968. PF.
A PIMP’S REVENGE. Playboy, 1968. PF.
THE PLACE IS DIFFERENT NOW. American Prefaces, Spring 1943. PUS.
THE PRISON. Commentary, September 1950. MB.
REMBRANDT’S HAT. The New Yorker, March 17, 1973. RH, SBM.
RIDING PANTS. Written in 1953; first published in PUS.
THE SILVER CROWN, Playboy, December 1972. RH, SBM.
SPRING GRAIN. Written in 1942; first published in PUS.
STEADY CUSTOMER. New Threshold, August 1943. First book publication here.
STILL LIFE. Partisan Review, Winter 1962. IF, PF.
A SUMMER’S READING. The New Yorker, September 22, 1956. MB.
SUPPOSE A WEDDING. New Statesman, February 8, 1963. IF.
TAKE PITY. America, September 25, 1956. MB, MR, SBM.
TALKING HORSE. The Atlantic, August 1972. RH, SBM, TF.
A WIG. The Atlantic, January 1980. PUS.
ZORA’S NOISE. GQ (Gentlemen’s Quarterly), January 1985. PUS.
Copyright © 1997 by Ann Malamud
Introduction © 1997 by Robert Giroux
All rights reserved
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
19 Union Square West, New York 10003
eISBN 9781429930895
First eBook Edition : April 2011
First edition, 1997
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Malamud, Bernard
[Short stories]
The complete stories / Bernard Malamud; introduction by Robert Giroux.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-374-12639-9 (alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3563.A4A6 1997
813’.54—dc21 97-12394
The Complete Stories Page 77
