Abstract
This article aims to present the work of Roger Laporte, a writer who has dedicated his life to describing the experience of writing. According to him, writing is making a link between life and the act of writing in a type of literature that he calls biography. This is not an autobiography in the traditional sense of the word where the writer mixes the daily facts of his life with their narration; on the contrary, the biography, according to Laporte, represents the writing that takes place during the life of the writer, the only fact that deserves to be told. The writer struggles to give expression to this gesture, he is absorbed in it, showing us his transformation from being a man to a writer. We present this union of life and writing in the form of the writer’s relationship to reading, which precedes and follows it, while carrying an otherness of which writing retains its traces and potential. The writer must be able to understand his position face to the writing project and its inclusion which allows him to recognize himself through his act. In the meantime he has written the writing of his life
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Cambria, Domenico
(2022)
"Roger Laporte’s biographical effort,"
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol5/iss1/13