THE CONCEPT OF THE TRAGIC IN THE WRITINGS OF J. CAROL OATES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of tragedy which has become one of the defining issue in J.K.Oates works, arises in American literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when the screaming contradictions of national imperialism escalate to the limit. The isolation of man, his isolation from the world and existence without any connection is the leitmotif of all Oates' early work. As a result, one of the typical features of the early prose of the American writer is a certain narrowness of the social range and an emphasis on the significance of the irrational principle. The whole tragedy of the existence of the heroes of Oates' early works lies in the impossibility and simply in the unwillingness to live in the interests of loved ones