IN:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Partit\u00fara Irodalomtudom\u00e1nyi foly\u00f3irat, Volume XV. \u00a0, Issue 1, 2020, p. 37-71.,\u00a0ISSN 1336-7307<\/span><\/p>\n DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>10.17846\/PA.2020.15.1.37-71<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n In Polcz Alaine\u2019s diaries Eg\u00e9sz l\u00e9nyeddel (With your whole self) the loss of her husband makes the biographical subject face herself. Exactly this is why the primary object of her autobiography is the reconstruction of her identity, the key of which she sees in finding her answer to the question: What is love? In her diary entries we can track how the narrator of the autobiography starts interacting with M\u00e9sz\u00f6ly\u2019s writings, while analysing the history of her marriage, and during the narrative understanding, in the act of writing and reading her narrative identity comes to existence. At the end of the study \u2013 following Polcz\u2019s method \u2013 stands the togetherness of the autobiography Eg\u00e9sz l\u00e9nyeddel and M\u00e9sz\u00f6ly\u2019s novel Az atl\u00e9ta hal\u00e1la (The death of the athlete), as both pieces of art researches the possibility of establishing the female subject in today\u2019s society, which provides a good basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n