Nikiforova Diana Valerevna – post-graduate student of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of State University of Education
Abstract
The article is analyzed thanatological thoughts and suicidal experiments of Esther Greenwood – the main character of the autofiction by Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar (1963). Conclusions are drawn that Esther’s deviance, her self-destruction – is a feature of Silent Generation authors.
Keywords
the death’s motive; confessional; autofiction; free to choose; thanatological; counterculture; Silent Generation; aesthetic suicide
