Marcel Moreau

Marcel Moreau is a Belgian writer of French language born in 1933 with Boussu (Province of Hainaut) in the mine field of the Borinage.

Biography

Resulting from a working medium in which like it reigned says it itself a " pure cultural vacuum, an complete absence of reference mark for the esprit" , it loses his father at the fifteen years age and stops some time its studies later. He then saw various trades until becoming assistant-accountant with Brussels for the newspaper the People then since 1955 corrector for the daily newspaper the Evening. It Marie in 1957; from this marriage will be born two children. In 1963, it publishes its first novel Quintes , greeted in particular by Simone de Beauvoir. Follow Bannière of dribble (1965), the infested ground men (1966) and the song of paroxysms (1967). It moves in Paris in 1968 when it continues its trade of corrector. He will exert thus for Alpha Encyclopedia, the Parisian one released in 1971 and for Le Figaro until 1989. He will also accomplish many voyages: the USSR, India, Cameroun, China, Iran, Nepal, Canada, Mexico, the United States and will bind with personalities such as Topor, Anaïs Nin, Dubuffet and Paulhan.

Regarded as a marginal writer, with the particular, organic verbal style tinted lyricism and of paroxystic flight, he is the author of a considerable work.

Reciting Michel Assenmaker presented to the Palais of the Art schools of Brussels of the texts of Marcel Moreau accompanied by slides by the contemporary plastics technician Olivier Foulon.

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