Features of "Therapeutic Writing" in M. De Kerangal's Novel "Mend the Living"

Mailis De Kerangal is a modern French writer. Her novel "Mend the Living", published in 2014, is one of the most common examples of "therapeutic writing" in literature, and at the same time demonstrates the characteristic features of the author's poetics of De Kerangal. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the novel "Mend the Living" within the framework of the theory of "therapeutic writing". The subject of this research is the study of aspects of the therapeutic and the discovery of specific narrative and stylistic features that have a therapeutic effect, as well as the study of the relationship between the author and the reader as objects of the therapeutic. As a result, current thesis will present both immanent and contextual analyses of the novel "Mend the Living", as well as an overview of the methods and techniques of "expressive writing" in order to identify the mechanisms of therapeutic effect in the novel of De Kerangal.