Top 10 literary works written in the form of a diary

Sometimes a talented writer can afford to withdraw a little so that we, ordinary readers, have the opportunity to observe the development of the plot through the eyes of the characters in the work, evaluate their character, form our own judgment about their actions, without resorting to the text from the author.

This technique was very popular among the classics of world literature and continues to be used by modern writers.

We present the top 10 fascinating works written in the form of a diary.

10 Daisy Faye and the Miracles, Fannie Flagg

Daisy Faye is the literary debut of the talented contemporary writer and actress Fannie Flagg. The book was put into print in 1981, that is, 6 years before the release of the legendary Fried Green Tomatoes, and almost immediately became a bestseller.

The work is filled with good humor, it is easy to read. If the blues haunts you, then you can recharge your batteries with optimism from the pages of this beautiful novel, many episodes of which are clearly taken from the life of the writer herself (in addition to the fact that the action takes place in Flagg’s native Alabama).

The author of the book, being an actress who herself was able to break through from the provincial scene to the leading theaters of America, to act in films with such famous masters as Jack Nicholson and Melanie Griffith, knows firsthand about everything described in the book.

The novel also describes very well the pace and lifestyle of the American province of the 50s, passed through the mind of a girl from a poor family who is trying to solve many of her psychological problems.

9. “Dracula”, Bram Stoker

An aspiring lawyer from London travels to mysterious Transylvania, having absolutely no idea what he will have to face there…

Work on the creation of the famous novel lasted for eight years. The author thoroughly studied the beliefs of the countries of Eastern Europe, legends and all sorts of references to vampires.

Dracula was created in 1897 and since then the book has been reprinted a huge number of times. The novel has repeatedly become the basis for the film adaptation.

8. “Repetition of Fate”, Janusz Leon Wisniewski

The novel tells the story of Marcin, who lives in a small settlement – Bičica, and Emilia. The book contains many descriptions of the family members of the protagonist, his colleague Mira, in addition, it tells in detail about the life of a neighbor, the old woman Sekerkova.

7. “Korolek – a singing bird”, Reshad Nuri Gyuntekin

The work describes the fate of a young girl Feride. While still a child, she lost her mother. The father determined the girl to be raised in a French boarding school.

A few years later, Feride’s father dies, and she comes under the care of her aunt Besima. In her house, she enjoys holidays and weekends. Because of her playful and obstinate disposition, the girl is called King.

When the main character grew up, she fell in love with her cousin Kamran, who also had tender feelings for Farida. Having received a blessing from the family, the lovers decide to get married.

However, a few days before the wedding, a stranger tells Feride that her fiancé cheated on her. Upon learning of the betrayal, the girl decides to run away from home, becoming a provincial teacher…

6. “Letters to Milena”, Franz Kafka

Kafka in this work does not appear as a complex intricate author. Here he is close to every reader, because he leaves a detached writer’s tone, and acts as an ordinary person with his innermost thoughts and reasoning about life.

This is the positive side of building a novel in the form of diary entries – this style allows the reader to recognize the author from a completely different side. But this is not even correspondence, but letters that remained unanswered.

The novel contributes to the development of philosophical reflections in the reader, while reading is very addictive.

5. “Full Illumination” by Jonathan Safran Foer

In this work, illumination does not appear immediately. But for some, never. It is very easy to walk by and not find switches in the dark. It should also be emphasized that the author here uses unusual literary techniques – he manages to write about serious things in a frivolous way.

4. “De profundis. Prison Confession, Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of the life of the greatest writer of the XNUMXth century became the basis for writing this book. It was created in Reading Prison, where Wilde spent a year and a half.

Life in captivity completely broke the writer. Most of the people who once called themselves his friends turned their backs on him. The love of his life – Alfred Douglas, to whom Wilde dedicated this novel, never visited him in prison.

After his release, the author gave a draft of the novel to Robert Ross and asked him to send the manuscript to Douglas, who later said that he never received it.

The abridged novel was first published in German in 1904, after the death of its author.

3. “The Fifth Character”, Davis Robertson

This novel describes the biography of three people from the small Canadian city of Deptford: one of them manages to become a millionaire and make a brilliant career in politics, the other is a world-famous magician, the third is a teacher.

2. “Letters to a Stranger” by André Maurois

This book is considered to be the best work of Maurois. Here, in all its glory, his incredible knowledge of human psychology is revealed.

Contradictory, filled with intellectual humor and lyrics, to this day it is considered a kind of “style standard”.

Readers are still wondering if the mysterious Stranger really existed?

1. “A Hero of Our Time”, Mikhail Lermontov

Every now and then returning to the classics at the call of the heart, and not for show, you discover a lot of unexpected and interesting things that you could not comprehend before due to age and inexperience.

How sometimes the caustic remarks of the protagonist, as if talking about the modern world, are accurate. That is why this novel will never lose its relevance and sharpness.

The Pechorin Journal reveals in detail the psychological portrait of the protagonist, because there Pechorin, on his own behalf, tells about everything that happened to him and worried him.

Without these diary entries, the reader would only have to trust the generalized opinion of fellow soldiers of the disgraced ensign about his personality: “a nice fellow, but with great oddities.”