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is a receding infinity of fresh beginning. They keep going onluck and grace.The great lesson that the immigrant has toteach the born and raised citizens is that being on the run isa native American condition.The Americans are constantlybeing awakened to their restlessness and fluidity by the newcomer.While Mukherjee's concerns are racial and social,Malamuds's concerns are in addltion to racial and social,moral.Malamud 1s certainly the moralist, but he is themorallst who 1s capable of stepping out of his Immediate roleas morallst by oblectifylng hisllfted out of t.he world of allegory.character into an experienceMalamud fluctuates between reallsm and allegory.Siege1 feels that,And in sofar as Malamud's characters exist in a realistic milieu, theyare as :real as anyone can be: but the reality of a PinyeSalzean, of a Manischevitz, of a Mitka, and aXessler (not all of Malamud's characters have assuch of the caricature in them) depends far more onthe act of creation which extends beyond the realityof 'realism' into the peculiarly distorted reality(in the artistic sense) of the artist. (1963,69).In Malanud's a,a.nple this 1s the art of caricature. Thepolnt that Malamud's intention 1s perhaps highly moralistic -every significant writing is so ,which is perhaps one approachto a,zsess his pldce ln contemporary American literature.