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The article “When the Blind Take Up Their Pens: The Dialectics of a Blind Person’s Autobiography” seeks to examine, building on Derrida’s analysis, the implications of blindness on the writing of an intimate work, taking The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and On Sight and Insight: A Journey into the World of Blindness by John M. Hull as its starting point. How can one write, in the most basic sense of the term, without being able to see? What becomes of the texture, of the physical embodiment of a text written in braille, when the work is published as an ordinary book in black and white? The various transformations that the act of writing undergoes have an influence on the proximity of the blind author to his autobiographical work, which fluctuates between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible.