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The heroes of his early stories, from the 1940s and '50s, tend to be poor, inarticulate shopkeepers and workers (tailors, grocers, shoemakers, census-takers--Malamud almost always identified his characters by profession, in a bow to the proletarianism of the '30s), New York Jews mostly, whose rough outer appearances suddenly fall away to reveal inner souls of the purest lyrical passion.
La horma [not “herma”] de su zapato does not mean `encountering the shoestring,' since horma means `shoemaker's last,' that is, the wooden form on which shoemakers build--or used to build--shoes.
There is history here, of all sorts: Kelly Harrell impersonating Charles Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin; the Carolina Tar Heels voicing the lament of shoemakers made redundant by the Industrial Revolution; Charlie Poole singing, "Roosevelt in the White House, he's doing his best; McKinley in the graveyard, he's taking his rest."