"Awkward Malamud " by Professor Philip Davis, University of Liverpool, UK

Much of Malamud's work, in slow revision, was dedicated to impeding easy left-to-right movements of syntax with deliberate verbal awkwardness – itself reflective of the difficulties of the protagonists themselves within their stories. Philip Davis is a Professor in the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK. His publications include: Memory and Writing, In Mind of Johnson, Sudden Shakespeare, Shakespeare Thinking, The Victorians (volume 8 in the Oxford English Literary History series), and Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life (Oxford University Press 2007)