Tragedy and Farce in Roth's:The Human Stain

Autor:	Elaine B. Safer
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Literature History Literature and Literary Theory Impeachment business.industry Judaism Tragedy Nuclear weapon Spanish Civil War Vietnam War HERO Post office business Classics
Zdroj:	Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 43:211-227
ISSN:	1939-9138 0011-1619
DOI:	10.1080/00111610209602181
Popis:	Philip Roth has called his recent three novels “a thematic trilogy.” They all deal, he explains, with the “historical moments in postwar American life that have had the greatest impact on my generation”: the McCarthy era, the Vietnam War, and 1998, the year of Bill Clinton's impeachment (McGrath, “Interview” 8).1 In American Pastoral (1997), a handsome, honest, hardworking businessman and Jewish athletic hero, Seymour (“Swede”) Levov, is ruined by the actions of daughter Merry, an anti-Vietnam War activist, who “brings the war home” to folks in New Jersey by setting off a bomb in the local post office.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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