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Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition is the fifth published novel of Bernard Malamud. It is a novel in the form of a short story cycle, which gathers six stories dealing with Arthur Fidelman, an art student from the Bronx who travels to Italy, initially to research Giotto, but also with the hopes of becoming a painter.
Dec 27, 2015 · Published in 1969, Bernard Malamud’s Pictures of Fidelman not only contains the story of failed Jewish European assimilation— a particularly harrowing failure given the then-recent Shoah which claimed the lives of six million European Jewry— but also centers on the failure of the artistic self, which unfolds in one particular Bronx Jew ...
Pictures of Fidelman. Bernard Malamud. 3.44. 256 ratings25 reviews. Arthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to Italy to prepare a critical study of Giotto, a zany adventure ensues.
Jun 9, 2022 · 208 pages ; 21 cm
Pursued through the streets of Rome by the refugee Susskind, falling into the hands of art thieves, hand-carving wooden Madonnas, becoming a pimp, attempting to sculpt the perfect hole, Fidelman...
FIDELMAN pissing in muddy water discovers water over his head. Modigliani wanders by searching by searchlight for his lost statues in Livorno canal.
Pursued through the streets of Rome by the refugee Susskind, falling into the hands of art thieves, hand-carving wooden Madonnas, becoming a pimp, attempting to sculpt the perfect hole, Fidelman is a comic creation of genius.
