Autobiographik reflections in trauma Literature

Abstract

The research of traumatic memory in literary studies and comparative discourses is one of the current directions, to the extent that the collective memory containing the trauma forms the literary representation of those events that changed the collective consciousness of the society.

When discussing trauma literature, it is worth noting the texts containing personal trauma, authors of which openly tell the reader about the impressions they experienced.

The desacralization of the author's personality is a new stage in the development of literature to the extent that a writer is no longer an untouchable person, he/she is an ordinary person who is familiar with human feelings and tragedies.

As a rule, the narration in the above-mentioned type of texts takes place in the first person and by honestly telling about traumatic memories and experienced impressions, the author manages to gain the unlimited trust of the reader. This type of literature focuses on the author's personal traumatic experience and the means of release from it.

The subject of our interest is to analyze the taboo topics containing personal trauma raised by female authors from a comparative point of view, in this sense, the artistic texts of the famous French writer Annie Ernaux are interesting, where women of different national cultures openly tell the reader about the experienced traumas and complex psychological conditions.