A Belgian French speaking writer, born in Uccle (Brussels), who acquired French nationality in 1948 and died in Châteauroux (in the department of Indre). After a grim adolescence he threw himself heart and soul not only into writing but also painting, drawing and sculpture. His literary work, if we restrict ourselves to just that, is protean, which only adds to the ‘unclassifiable’ character of this individual, who has remained unknown to the general public. On the other hand a good number of his peers recognised and admired him: Antonin Artaud, for example, wrote a preface for his Marthe et l'Enragé (1927), a novel with an autobiographical dimension; Max Elskamp, André Suarès, Ezra Pound, Oscar Vladislas, Lubicz-Milosz and many others were amongst his circle of friends. But whilst he broke with Symbolist aesthetics he at no time enrolled in one of the literary movements of his day. Independently of his novelistic output, of which Satan l'Obscur (1933) in particular predominates, it is through his poems and poetic prose that he made a mark on the French literature of the first half of the twentieth century. In them we rub shoulders with a soul which is both solitary and rebellious, certainly tormented and perpetually seeking the absolute.