This essay examines selected literary texts by Marica Bodrozić in order to explore the interplay between literature and identity formation as a process of ethical-aesthetic self-care. The theoretical framework draws on HannahArendt’s and Michel Foucault’s political and ethical concepts of self-care, as well as their basic praxeological assumption that philosophy is itself an active mode of self-subjectification. Focusing on Bodrozić’s distinctly autobiographical works - situated between poetic fiction and philosophical nonfiction - the essay argues that her literature functions not only as a practice but also as a poietic form of self-care in Foucault’s sense: as philosophy in actu, enacting self-subjectification and thus constituting an autopoietic practice.