«There are women who are to lie beneath the sod»: the faces of the literature suicide. Part I: no and yes

Based on the prose of the 19th-20th centuries (for the most part), typical features of “literary” and/or “female” suicides (thanatological images) are highlighted in the broad cultural-historical and philosophical contexts of genre and narratology with clarification of the “life-death” coordinates and the relationship literature and life. The analysis is based on clinical (phenomenological), biographical, typological approaches, and the method of literary hermeneutics.