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Farrar Straus & Giroux (1969), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 208 pages
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Six memorable episodes in the life of a man trying to achieve fulfillment as an artist.
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LibraryThing member magicians_nephew
Pictures of Fidelman is a little known work by Bernard Malamud. That's probably just as well.
Arthur Fidelman is a Jewish student / writer / painter without much money who goes off to Rome to write / paint / study. In a series of short stories tied together into a sort of novel he goes from Writer
There are some great descriptions of Rome and Florence and Italy and some lovely thoughts about art and literature and philosophy.
But Fidelman is in the end of bit of a schnook and to be honest more than a bit of a cipher. And in the end there is an ending that felt just tacked on, and close de box!.
Malamud wrote a bunch of great books. If this is one of his less-than-great ones, that's OK with me.
Arthur Fidelman is a Jewish student / writer / painter without much money who goes off to Rome to write / paint / study. In a series of short stories tied together into a sort of novel he goes from Writer
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to painter to forger to pimp to garbageman and who knows what else. It's a decline and fall novel. It's a questing novel. Or something. There are some great descriptions of Rome and Florence and Italy and some lovely thoughts about art and literature and philosophy.
But Fidelman is in the end of bit of a schnook and to be honest more than a bit of a cipher. And in the end there is an ending that felt just tacked on, and close de box!.
Malamud wrote a bunch of great books. If this is one of his less-than-great ones, that's OK with me.
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LibraryThing member stephkaye
The story of Fidelman, an American Jew who saves his money to study art in Italy. Each story finds him in a worse situation, but he never stops having epiphanies about art, love, and life. His romantic entwinement with a painter is reminiscent of an Anais Nin story.
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0374232482 / 9780374232481