André Pieyre de Mandiargues
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André Pieyre de Mandiargues (Paris, March 14, 1909 - December 13, 1991) was a French writer and erotomaniac.
His book La Marée was made into a film by Walerian Borowczyk. The 1967 novel La Marge won the Prix Goncourt. It is his collection of pornographic items that is featured in Borowczyk's Une collection particulière . He also wrote an introduction to Pauline Réage's Story of O and the story La Motocyclette, on which The Girl on a Motorcycle was based.
Mandiargues's gift was to make the invisible visible with an implacable sense of logic and an almost maniacal precision. His stories are collected in Le Musée Noir [The Black Museum] (1946) and Soleil des Loups [The Sun Of The Wolves] (1951).
His book Feu de braise (1959) was published in 1971 in an English translation by April FitzLyon called Blaze of Embers (Calder and Boyars, 1971).
See also: La Marge (1967) and L'Anglais décrit dans le château fermé (1953).