This dissertation explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin Heidegger's concept of care [Sorge] accommodates narrative world in its formal framework, drawing on Catherine Malabou's engagement with the Heideggerian oeuvre. The second chapter engages with the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, focusing on the ways in which The Unconsoled (1995) reveals embodiment as a latent, underlying connective tissue supporting the cohesion of the narrative world precisely by destabilizing narrative perspective. This chapter features a reflection on how Jakob von Uexküll's concept of the environment [Umwelt] relates to an understanding of narrative world in the context of Ishiguro's work, as well as a discussion of how the particularities of the narrative mode of The Unconsoled both enact and undermine the conceptual dynamic animating central concepts in the biopolitics of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. The third chapter attempts to situate the literary work of Max Blecher (1909-1938) in the context of the broader intellectual, artistic, medical and historical context of interwar Europe. Specifically, the institutional history of the sanatorium and the development of phenomenology and existentialism figure as significant events framing Blecher's oeuvre, whose significant contribution to the landscape of twentieth century literature is showcased by a series of comparative readings setting it in dialogue with the work of Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jeanne Galzy etc.
