Pierre Klossowski
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- | '''Pierre Klossowski''' ([[1905]] – [[August 12]], [[2001]]) was a [[French writer]], translator and artist. | + | '''Pierre Klossowski''' ([[August 9]], [[1905]]—[[August 12]], [[2001]]) was a [[French writer]], translator and artist. |
Born in Paris in [[1905]], Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on [[Marquis de Sade]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by [[Virgil]], [[Wittgenstein]], [[Martin Heidegger|Heidegger]], [[Hölderlin]], [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Benjamin]]) into French, worked on films and was also an artist, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. Klossowski participated in most issues of [[Georges Bataille]]'s review, ''[[Acéphale]]'', in the late 1930s. | Born in Paris in [[1905]], Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on [[Marquis de Sade]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by [[Virgil]], [[Wittgenstein]], [[Martin Heidegger|Heidegger]], [[Hölderlin]], [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Benjamin]]) into French, worked on films and was also an artist, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. Klossowski participated in most issues of [[Georges Bataille]]'s review, ''[[Acéphale]]'', in the late 1930s. |
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Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905—August 12, 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 an artist, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. Klossowski participated in most issues of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in the late 1930s.
His book Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle and previous papers included within were a huge influence on French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard and many others.
He is the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus.
Bibliography
Year | Original French | English Translation |
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1947 | Sade mon prochain (Paris: Seuil, 1947) | Sade my neighbour trans. by Alphonso Lingis (Northwestern University Press, 1991) |
1950 | La Vocation suspendue (Paris: Gallimard,1950) | - |
1963 | Un si funeste désir (Paris: Gallimard, 1963) | - |
1965 | Le Baphomet, (Paris: Mercure de France, 1965) | The Baphomet trans. by Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli
(Marsilio Pub, 1992) ISBN 0-941419-73-8 |
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 trans. by Austryn Wainhouse with introduction by Micheal Perkins (Dalkey Archive Press, 2002) |
1969 | Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux (Paris: Mercure de France, 1969) | Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0-226-44387-6; other ed. 2001 ISBN 0-485-12133-6 |
1980 | Le Bain de Diane, Paris, Gallimard, 1980) | Diana at Her Bath/the Women of Rome trans. by Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli
(Marsilio Publishers, 1998) ISBN 1-56886-055-2 |
Posthumous publications | ||
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2001 | Écrits d'un monomane: Essais 1933-1939 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001) | - |
2001 | Tableaux vivants: Essais critiques 1936-1983 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001) | - |
2001 | L'adolescent immortel (Paris: Gallimard, 2001) | - |
2003 | La Monnaie vivante (Paris: Gallimard, 2003) | - |