Nathalie’s Rotunda: Breaching the Threshold of Maurice Blanchot’s L’Arrêt de mort

This paper will contend that Blanchot’s conceptual work on the space of literature lingers in an uncom-fortable proximity to that space we conventionally name “architecture.” What I will examine below is what Blanchot himself has identified as a “spatial movement that is in relation with the becoming of writing” (IC 260), such that we forge a passage to and fro between at least two different registers of space.