Abstract

This article will explore the possibility of conceiving literature within what Foucault has called the "ontology of ourselves." As a common thread of the analysis, I am going to dwell on the notion of transgression that seems to run through, with different modulations, the entire work of Foucault, and whose purpose is always the transformation of oneself. For that, I am going to analyze the various texts from the 1960s that talk about literature, from its archaeological stage, and the text What is the Enlightenment?, from its ethical stage, in which it develops intensely and extensively the "ontology of ourselves.". Then I will proceed to critically analyze whether literature can be assimilated to this proposal of the last Foucault.