Des projections féminines dans l’espace littéraire et culturel central-européen

Abstract

Joseph Roth proves his sympathy as he often empathises with women who are deeply affected by
misfortunes like poverty, war and men's betrayal. The First World War destroyed the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy and its imperial power, bereaving millions of women and having a negative impact on them. The cycle
of 33 articles entitled Le genre feminin comprises excerpts taken from Joseph Roth's complete journalistic work
written between 1924-1939, mirroring the writer's keen attachment as a fervent defender of the women
renegated by society and wronged by law.Roth's work portrays quite a wide range of women in different places
such as streets, night clubs, gipsy neighbourhoods or Berlin's sordid slums. Roth also witnessed the woman's
emancipation and was mesmerised at the sight of the pilot woman, the embodiment of the modern woman.Joseph Roth representative gallery of women is also found in works like La Crypte des Capucins or La Marche de Radetzky and the present paper aims at analysing the feminine projections in the Central-European society as well as the literary representations from the Austrian writer's work.