Initial definitions of a diary and a letter form the core of my analysis of the three chosen literary works which I afterwards compare. After a short summary and the explanation of the origin of the selected writings I focus on their specific features. Parallels are drawn between the waiting of Marguerite and that of Hélène and Penelope from Homer's Odyssey. The research on the second part of the Duras' book is where I focus primarily on the narrator and the forms of short narrative. I explore the differences between the first preserved version of the diary and the one which was published in 1985. The content similarities found in the works The Letter to a Hostage and An Open Letter To Frenchmen Everywhere have enabled me to expose their common points. Afterwards, I analyse the style of the chosen works. Finally, I draw attention to the role of the reader and to the particularities of the narrator in an autobiographical novel.
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