El estudio del diario de guerra de Léon Werth, implica descubrir la identidad narrativa del autor en las circunstancias extremas de la Ocupación. El diario no solo será un espacio de refugio personal contra una muerte casi segura, sino el espacio en el que lucha contra la disolución de su yo. Gracias a la imbricación de acontecimientos, pensamientos y emociones, el autor descubre su identidad judía; una identidad que se completará al ser consciente de la función y misión que llegará a tener su escritura. En lucha contra el silencio, Werth comprende que es testigo superviviente y que su testimonio es una declaración bajo juramento que apela a la responsabilidad del lector

This study, dealing with narrative identity during the war in Henri Thomas's epistolary discourse, implies the considerationof factors such as the awareness of his historicalself. Such awareness locates him inthe perspective of being a «story-man» that can be told in the discourse and becomeself-revealing, which situates us before a man liable to progress and for whom compromiseis his only aim. This will be the material used during the first stage of the war (soldier Thomas), and it will later onbecome a spiritual compromise through which he searches for his salvation and his country, France. All this occurs thanks to the creative silence through which life, identity and literary universe appear imperfect communion