ABSTRACT
Laporte's literary enterprise is marked through and through by rupture and revision. The extension of the important generic designation of biographie, a term whose significance will be explored later in this chapter, to the works of the 1960s is consolidated by the inclusion of these works in the collected volume Une Vie, which also bears the sub-title biographie. By the time that Fugue is written, the new genre proposed in the Carnets under the heading of Traces has become biographie, the subtile of Fugue and subsequent works. In 1986 Laporte published a collection of brief essays on musical themes, Ecrire la musique, the introduction of which concludes with the hope that these essays will to some extent communicate his passion for music, and 'faire comprendre pourquoi elle constitue non seulement l'experience majeure de ma vie, mais le paradigme de tout mon travail'. Laporte describes the falsified self-quotations as copies non conformes.
