ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to survey the entirety of Roger Laporte's literary enterprise, from the three short recits of the 1950s to Moriendo, which marked the end of a series of works subtitled biographic initiated by Fugue in 1970. Laporte's work has attracted a number of commentaries, but predominantly in the form of review-articles on the occasion of a new publication. To write of Laporte's work under the rubric of the Orphic text is implicitly to place that work in a particular tradition, which Laporte has clearly indicated in his published Carnets and in a number of critical studies; in the case of a number of figures in this tradition, Laporte has also signalled the extent to which these were mediated for him by Maurice Blanchot's critical writings. Only a few of these endeavour to consider the broad itinerary of Laporte's writing, and even then they do so at a length which precludes consideration of that itinerary in any detail.
