Critics are also attracted to The Natural because Malamud infuses his story of star-crossed phenom Roy Hobbs with allusions drawn from a variety of mythic sources-Arthurian legend, the Bible, Homer, fertility myth, the myth of the hero-as well as with central constructs from the work of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.
This attention is not surprising, for The Natural is the first novel of a writer who subsequently achieved canonical status, and, following Lardner's work, it is the first of many serious baseball novels in the latter half of the twentieth century. Benard Malamud died in 1986.Written between 19 and published in 1951, Bernard Malamud's The Natural has garnered more critical attention than any other baseball novel. Bernard Malamud was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, USA, in 1964, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967, and won a major Italian award, the Premio Mondello, in 1985.
His other works include The Magic Barrel (1958, winner of the National Book Award), Idiots First (1963, short stories), The Fixer (1966, winner of a second National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize), Pictures of Fidelman (1969), The Tenants (1971), Rembrandt's Hat (1973, short stories), Dubin's Lives (1979) and God's Grace (1982). Malamud received international acclaim with the publication of The Assistant (1957, winner of the Rosenthal Award and the Daroff Memorial Award). His remarkable, and uncharacteristic first novel, The Natural, appeared in 1952.
Thereafter, he taught at Bennington State College, Vermont. From 1940 to 1949 he taught in various New York schools, and then joined the staff of Oregon State University, where he stayed until 1961. degree at the City College of New York and his M.A. Bernard Malamud, one of America's most important novelists and short-story writers, was born in Brooklyn in 1914.
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