| Summary: | This paper takes as its starting point the Barthesian notion of “writing of life”, and analyzes its theoretical-critical scope, considering it extremely operative to address the writing-life knotting in the literary productions of the present. To this end, the notion is linked, on the one hand, with other reflections of the last Barthes on the problem of animal life and, on the other hand, with some passages of Nietzschean thought that the critic himself quotes and comments in the seminars gathered together in the posthumous book The Preparation of the Novel. As an effect of these links, a transdisciplinary conceptual field is drawn. This field articulates, among others, the notions of intimacy, play, body, metabolism, animality, poverty, pleasure and co-existence, and allows considering the scriptures of lives as forms of identity exploration of the human animal.
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