NATÁLIA LEON NUNES

The doctoral qualification presented dealt with the fragment "" A primal scene?" which, along with the book "The Instant of My Death", is one of Blanchot's autobiographical texts. To read this fragment, I considered texts by Blanchot about writers trying to write about their lives, focusing on readings of Kafka and Henry James. I also returned to authors such as Freud and Serge Leclaire, mobilized in Blanchot to think about the Primal Scene. The analysis of the texts led me to formulate a hypothesis about the book "The Writing of Disaster", where is the fragment "A Primal Scene?". My reading is that Blanchot creates, in Writing of Disaster, a kind of novel of formation in reverse. His writing of the self must be thought of based on this hypothesis, a fragmented, fragmentary writing, without identity and marked by the death of the self. Next year, I intend to continue with this hypothesis and revisit the book "The Instant of My Death", as well as review the notion of death at different moments in Blanchot's work.