“Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh ‘at the kitchen table in Newark.’ Philip Roth’s Autofictional Holocaust”

This article investigates a selection of Philip Roth's autofictional texts in which the simplicity yet exceptionality of his family is of paramount interest. For Roth family is the earliest and most essential instance of society and this article claims that, by imagining an American and an autobiographically infused family under anti-semitic laws, Roth approximates the Holocaust in a narrative aiming to be faithful to reality (the autobiographical) yet detached from it (the uchronic apparatus).