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Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) was a French writer, translator and artist.
Born in Paris in 1905, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by Virgil, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Hölderlin, Kafka, Nietzsche, Benjamin) into French, worked on films and was also a painter, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. He died in 2001.
Bibliography
- / Sade my neighbour (Quartet Bks., 1992, ASIN 0704301555; original French ed. Sade mon prochain, Paris, Seuil, 1947)
- La Vocation suspendue (Paris: Gallimard,1950)
- Un si funeste désir (Paris: Gallimard, 1963)
- / The Baphomet (Marsilio Pub, 1992, ASIN 0941419738 ; original French ed. Le Baphomet, Paris, Mercure de France, 1965)
- Les Lois de l'hospitalité (Paris: Gallimard, 1965) (trilogy of the 'Roberte' novels: La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes (1959), Roberte ce soir (1954), and Le Souffleur (1960))
- / Roberte Ce Soir and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002, ISBN 156478309X
- / Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0226443876; other ed. 2001 ISBN 0485121336; original version Paris, Mercure de France, 1969)
- / Diana at Her Bath/the Women of Rome Marsilio Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1568860552 (original edition Le Bain de Diane, Paris, Gallimard, 1980)
- Écrits d'un monomane: Essais 1933-1939 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
- Tableaux vivants: Essais critiques 1936-1983 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
- L'adolescent immortel (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
- La Monnaie vivante (Paris: Gallimard, 2003)
Translations
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus suivi de Investigations philosophiques
- Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir
Secondary Texts
- Ian James, Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Legenda, 1999)
- Leslie Hill, Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
External links
- Book review and biography, by Brett Bowles
- Pierre Klossowski biograpy by Elena Filipovic, focussing on his drawing
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