The Gaze into the Abyss. Rereadings of the Myth of Orpheus in the Work of Maurice Blanchot

The mythical and literary image of Orpheus offers us a privileged perspective on the work of Maurice Blanchot and the philosophical implications of his Literary criticism. The objective of this study is both to interpret the rereadings that Blanchot makes of this motif throughout his work from the global sense of his work, as well as to test an interpretation of the myth in a phenomenological key, putting Blanchot's approach to the literary space in dialogue with some considerations on limit regions of phenomenality, as they have been proposed, specifically, by Jean-Luc Marion.