Violette Leduc. An existentialist woman-writer in France.

Violette Leduc. An existentialist woman-writer in France The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe and evaluate the work of French writer Violette Leduc from the point of view of existentialism, which she is considered to be a representative of. There is an outline of the basic context of the writer's life and work at the beginning and description of the genre of autobiography follows. The main body of the work includes association of her life with existentialism (she took an active part in existentialists' literary group and she kept a close personal relationship with some of the representatives of this movement: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus); and with literature in terms of intertextuality (internal coherence and inspiration of her work); and with themes of her work as such and her perception of them. Both perspectives are interconnected because Leduc's work is mainly autobiographical. The core purpose of the work is to investigate the reflection of ontological and ethical demands of existentialism in the author's elaboration of authentic experience. The interpretative part deals with her essential trilogy: : La Bâtarde, La Folie en Tête, La Chasse à l'Amour. Both the typical features of existentialism and the features of Leduc's work that go beyond it are explained on the basis of these three texts. The..