“THE AMERICAN TRILOGY” BY PHILIP ROTH IN THE CONTEXT OF US ETHNIC LITERATURE

Abstract

The object of study in the article is one of the most famous works of F. Roth - “The American Trilogy”. The problems raised in the trilogy are shown against a broad background of events in the political and ideological life of the country in the last third of the twentieth century. The analysis made it possible to identify a range of problems that concerned the author: personal selfidentification, interracial relations, the impact of the “American Dream” on the fate of heroes, responsibility for abandoning one’s national identity, terrorism, left-wing extremism, the impact of the Vietnam War on the fate of ordinary Americans