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Malamud: "Armistice"
"Armistice” opens with Brooklyn grocery/deli owner Morris Lieberman’s memory of a horrific act of violence he had witnessed as a youth during a pogrom against the Jews in his native Russia. This scene underlies the story, and is reinforced by radio broadcasts of the Nazi advance in Europe and underscored by the gloating approval of their success by Gus Wagner, a German-American sausage salesman peddling his wares to Lieberman. Morris is literally addicted to the radio broadcasts; he cannot break away from the war news that informs him of what he fears to hear.
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