E.L. Doctorow is a famous American writer, the author of many novels and stories. In the novel “World's Fair” (1985), the reader experiences, now accelerating and now slowing down, a stream of memories of a boy from a poor Jewish family growing up in the Bronx in the 1930s. one of the most underprivileged areas of New York. There is a lot of sadness in the novel, but also a lot of light, love for people, for life. The reader will encounter high literature, permeated with a humanistic feeling that is so necessary today, an awareness of the highest value of human life.