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Compassion for Suffering Humanity: The Instant of My Death
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This chapter offers a reading of Blanchot's last narrative text, The Instant of My Death. It focuses on Blanchot's description of an enigmatic lightness that he experienced while facing a firing squad in 1945. The core question concerns his manner of linking this latter experience with an understanding of human finitude and what Blanchot terms "a compassion for suffering humanity."