Abstract

This research proposes the exposition of the genesis of the limit-experience as articulated in Maurice Blanchot’s philosophy, especially in some texts that deal in a critical-essayistic way with questions of literature. These texts are The Work of Fire and The Space of Literature. The driving questions that direct the course of this research include the question of the possibility of literary work, the question of the death of the author, the question of the possibility and impossibility of death, among others. The unsystematic movement of Blanchot’s philosophy creates difficulties for an analytical study method, faithful to a closed speculative model. Knowing this, this research proposes to examine two moments in Blanchot’s philosophy in which the problem of the limit-experience can be described as the impossibility of dying. Thus, the main objective is to partially elucidate how Blanchot takes up this problem in two different texts that deal with the possibility of death and the possibility of literary writing from the perspective of another experience that, ultimately, presupposes the impossibility of both.