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Malamud's fiction constantly seeks to reconcile extremes - such as pain and laughter. He is an eternal optimist concerned with the effect of suffering, a visionary who sees both the need for brotherhood and the essential aloneness of each human being.
In the Fixer, Yakov Bok - the title character - retains his sanity and his humanity in the face of overwhelming adversity. Faced with the basic unfairness of his life, the fixer makes a covenant with himself that if "God is not a man he [Yakov] has to be," and realizes "the purpose of freedom is to create it for others."
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