Max Loreau (7 June 1928 – 7 January 1990) was a 20th-century Belgian philosopher, poet and art critic.
Life and career Born in Brussels, Max Loreau was a professor of modern philosophy at the University of Brussels.
He was interested in a number of movements ranging from the Renaissance to Cobra. His work focused on artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Guillaume Corneille, and Asger Jorn. A comprehensive study of the logograms by Christian Dotremont was published in 1975; Loreau also worked with Pierre Alechinsky, who helped him to publish L'Épreuve. He died in 1990.
Loreau's philosophy is rooted primarily in phenomenology.
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.. L’Epreuve-La prova, prefazione e traduzione italiana con testo a fronte, a cura di Adriano Marchetti, Panozzo Editore, Rimini, 2010. 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
References
Bibliography Coll., Max Loreau (1928–1990), Brussels, Lebeer-Hossmann, 1991 (Contributions by Pierre Alechinsky, Francine Loreau, Michel Deguy, Éric Clemens, Bruno Van Camp, Robert Legros, Roland Hinnekens, Henri Raynal, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Bauduin). Revue La part de l'œil, 14, 1998," Dossier : Hommage à Max Loreau " (Contributions by Francine Loreau, Luc Richir, Kostas Axelos, 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, .
External links LOREAU MAX on Encyclopedie universalis Max Loreau on the site of Éditions de Minuit Hommage à Max Loreau on La Part de l'Oeil (1998) Cri. Éclat et phases on the site of Éditions Gallimard Max Loreau, Présentation on Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet (Jean-Jacques Pauvert éditeur, 1967) Max Moreau on the site of Éditions Gallimard