Diary as an Instrument of Philosophic Self-research in Creative Work of J.-P. Sartre

The article examines the features of diary genre in the works of J.-P. Sartre on the text material, demonstrating an affinity with diary prose, – the novel «Nausea» and «Diary of a strange war». We proceed from the assumption that the relevance of this form is due to Sartre’s genre traits, productive for the formulation of an existential statement. Among them are: a special stylistic organization of the text, the synchronicity of unfinished diary, as well as the possibility of introducing in the text of the indirect recipient and the similarity of the genre with the epistolary form. Each of these features enables Sartre to actualize their own philosophical principles and ideas: openness of the existential project, intentionality of consciousness and the need to examine the person in the aspect of its perception of the world, the senselessness of introspection and self-knowledge of the other. During the analysis we refer to the works of Russian (E.M. Evnin, S.L. Fokin) and French Sartre-experts (J.F. Luetta, M. Comte, J. Degi, J. Simon), as well as theoretical studies of the genre (works of Y.M. Lotman, O. Yegorov, A.A. Zaliznyak, L.N. Letyagin, A. Girard, F. Lejeune).