Max Loreau (7 June 1928, in

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– 7 January 1990) was a 20th-century Belgian philosopher, poet and

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Biography

Max Loreau is interested in the aesthetics of the

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before publishing the complete catalog of works by

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, before drafting a more comprehensive study of the

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s by

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in 1975. He also worked with

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who helped him to publish one of his last texts, ''L'Épreuve''. His philosophy takes root in

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, from which he tries to rehabilitate the body. He starts from a genetic approach in which he tries to rethink the origin of the phenomenon as the genesis of the apparition. In ''Cri'' (Shout), he inaugurates a radical style from which he describes the effect of rupture, tearing and the void that emerges from the shout. This uncovering of the experience of language invites us to redefine the emergence of the apparition and show how the view resumes its bearings and reconstitutes a world. Starting from a critique of the Platonic vision, which fundamentally denies the body, since it is idealized as a vision of ideas, this path leads Loreau to rethink a new beginning of the body, vision and language. Max Loreau also published various poems under the titles ''Cerceaux s'orcellent'', ''Chants de la perpétuelle venue'' and ''Florence portée aux nues''.

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

Bibliography

* 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, Henri Raynal,

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

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, Éric Clémens, Robert Davreu, Eddy Devolder, Daniel Giovannangeli, Roland Hinnekens, Adriano Marchetti, Lucien Massaert, Richard Mille Henri Raynal, Éliane Escoubas, 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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