Petrus Borel
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Petrus Borel, sometimes known as Borel d'Hauterive (26 June 1809 - 14 July 1859) was a minor but interesting French writer of the Romantic movement.
Born Joseph-Pierre Borel at Lyon, the 12th of 14 children of an ironmonger, he studied architecture in Paris but abandoned it for literature. Nicknamed le Lycanthrope ("wolfman"), and the center of the circle of Bohemians in Paris, he was noted for extravagant and eccentric writing, foreshadowing Surrealism. He was not commercially successful though, and eventually was found a minor civil service post by his friends, including Theophile Gautier.
He died at Mostaganem in Algeria.
He was the subject of a biography by Enid Starkie: The Lycanthrope (1954).
Works
- Rhapsodies (1831)
- Champavert, contes immoraux (1833)
- Madame Putiphar (1839)
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