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AUTHORIAL FORMATION OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTER IN THE WORDS BY J.-P. SARTRE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 10 (163). P. 146-149

Notions reading and writing from J.-P. Sartre’s autobiographical tale The Words (Les Mots) are considered in their relation to representing an authorial ego and to existential experience of an autobiographical character, which undergoes authorial formation by going through various stages of reading and writing. Individual literary evolution is specified by its correlation with literary evolution in general. There studied how the mechanism of writing is paradoxically described in the narrative and the way it performs the summit of a single ego’s fulfillment along with the ego’s estrangement and vanishing into generality at the same time. There also revealed an analogy between forming an autobiographical character’s reading and writing habit and his experiencing the notion of death. Sartre’s parting from literature in The Words is explained in connection with R. Barthes concept of “Death of the author”.

Keywords: J.-P. Sartre, The Words (Les Mots), autobiographical character, authorial ego, reading and writing, literary evolution