Max Loreau (7 June 1928 – 7 January 1990) was a 20th-century Belgian philosopher, poet and

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Life and career

Born in

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, Max Loreau was a professor of modern philosophy at the University of Brussels. He was interested in a number of movements ranging from the

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. His work focused on artists such as

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, Guillaume Corneille, and

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. A comprehensive study of the

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s by

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was published in 1975; Loreau also worked with

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, who helped him to publish ''L'Épreuve''. He died in 1990. Loreau's philosophy is rooted primarily in

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Publications

*1966: (essay). *1967: . *1967: (poems). *1971: (tirage limité). *1973: (essay). *1973: (essay). *1975: *1976: (short stories). *1977: (poems). *1980: (essay). *1980: (essay) *1986: (poems). *1987: (essay) *1989: (essay) *1990: (poems). Posthumous : *1997: *1998: *2001: (essay) *2005: *2005: *''Poemes-Poesie,'' Prefazione e traduzione italiana con testo a fronte di Adriano Marchetti, Campanotto Editore, Pasian di Prato, 2012.ISBN 978-88-1292-3. *''L’Epreuve-La prova,'' prefazione e traduzione italiana con testo a fronte, a cura di Adriano Marchetti, Panozzo Editore, Rimini, 2010.ISBN 978-88-7472-139-9 *''Opera da camera''-Dans l’Éclat du Moment et Le Matin d’Orphé, Prefazione di Michel Deguy, Introduzione e traduzione italiana di Adriano Marchetti, Panozzo Editore, Rimini, 2005 ISBN 88-7472-056-4

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* Coll., ''Max Loreau (1928–1990)'', Brussels, Lebeer-Hossmann, 1991 (Contributions by Pierre Alechinsky, Francine Loreau,

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, Éric Clemens, Bruno Van Camp, Robert Legros, Roland Hinnekens,

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, Jacques Bauduin). * Revue ''La'' ''part de l'œil,'' 14, 1998," Dossier : Hommage à Max Loreau " (Contributions by Francine Loreau, Luc Richir,

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, Éric Clémens,

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, Eddy Devolder,

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, Roland Hinnekens, Adriano Marchetti, Lucien Massaert, Richard Mille Henri Raynal,

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, Bruno Vancamp). * Adriano Marchetti, ''La parole ´natale ´ de Max Loreau. Du rythme et de la variation,'' in ''Les avatars d’un regard. L’Italie vue à travers les écrivains belges de langue française,'' Clueb, Bologna 1988, Pages 185–206. * Revue « Francofonia », 41, 2001, ''La Quête de l’imprévisible,'' par Adriano Marchetti. * Adriano Marchetti, ''Max Loreau, parole d’avant la parole,'' Entretien et traduction réalisés par Pascal Leclerc, « Le Carnet et les Instants »,123, mai-septembre 2002. * * Adriano Marchetti, ''L’endiadi orfica di Max Loreau, in Odeporica e dintorni. Cento studi per Emanuele Lanceff, t. 4,'' CIRVI, Moncalieri 2011. * Véronique Verdier, ''Existence et création'', chapitre III, Paris, OL'Harmattan, series "Ouverture philosophique", 2016, .

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