The tenants

Resource Information

The work The tenants represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The tenants

Statement of responsibility

Bernard Malamud

Creator

• Malamud, Bernard

Subject

• Authors
• Psychological fiction
• Tenement houses -- Fiction
• Eviction -- Fiction
• Landlord and tenant
• Jewish fiction
• African American men -- Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Landlord and tenant -- Fiction
• Authors -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Jewish men -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- New York
• Tenement houses
• Jewish men
• Fiction
• African Americans -- Relations with Jews
• African Americans -- Relations with Jews -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Eviction
• African American men
• Jewish fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Psychological fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"The sole tenant in a run-down tenement, Harry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves in to the building. Harry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend, Irene, and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now: it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.5/4

Index

no index present

LC call number

• PZ4.M237
• PS3563.A4

LC item number

Te

Literary form

fiction