Main issues in the novel “City of God” by E. L. Doctorow = Основні проблеми романа "Місто Бога" Е. Л. Доктороу

Abstract

The article deals with the study of main ideas in the novel ―City of God‖ by American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorow. The different opinions to the creative work of the writer as one of the most talented, the most ambitious and most respected American novelists of the era of postmodernism are demonstrated. The author attempts to determine such three main ideas in the novel, as: the idea of New York as a reflexion of all humanity, the idea of faith and religion, the idea of the role of writer and literature in the world.