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ROGER LAPORTE
THE ORPHIC TEXT

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LEGENDA

EUROPEAN HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE

University of Oxford

Ian Maclachlan

First published 2000

Published by the European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford 47 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JF

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Roger Laporte was born in Lyon in 1925 and for many years taught philosophy in Montpellier. Following three short rcits published in the 1950s, La Veille (1963) initiated a series of works exploring the experience of writing. It was followed by Une Voix de fin silence (1966), Une Voix de fin silence II: Pourquoi? (1967), Fugue (1970), Fugue: Supplement (1973), Fugue 3 (1976), Suite (1979), and Moriendo (1983). This series was collected as Une Vie in 1986. Selections from Laporte's extensive critical writings have been published as Quinze variations sur un thme biographique (1975) and Etudes (1990). Commentators on his work include Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Laporte was awarded the Prix France-Culture in 1978.