NATÁLIA LEON NUNES

This work aims to understand the writing of the self in Maurice Blanchot. Starting from the book “The Instant of My Death”, published at the end of Blanchot's career, we seek to know how the author thinks about the issue of writing oneself, questioning several assumptions of the concept of autobiography. Blanchot's autobiographical novel has been called autothanatography by commentators such as Roger Laporte. What, after all, is the self-writing that he produces? Autobiography or autothanatography? What we seek to develop, especially from the reading of “The Writing of Disaster”, a book prior to “The Instant of My Death” which already contains an autobiographical fragment, is that Blanchot performs a phantasmography, a term that allows us to escape the dualism established in the debate about “Instant of my death”.