Pierre Klossowski
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Pierre Klossowski (1905—August 12, 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist.
Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by Virgil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Nietzsche, and Walter 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 George Bataille's review, Acéphale, in the late 1930s.
His book Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle greatly influenced French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard and others.
He was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus.
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[edit] Bibliography
| Year | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | Such a Deathly Desire trans. by Russell Ford (State University of New York Press, 2007) |
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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) | - |
[edit] Translations
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus suivi de Investigations philosophiques
- Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir
- Walter Benjamin "L'œuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproduction mécanisée" [in consultation with the author for the first publication of the essay in 1936]
[edit] Secondary texts
- Arnaud, A., Pierre Klossowski (Paris: Seuil, 1990) ISBN 9782020114950
- Decottignies, J., Klossowski notre prochain (Paris: H. Veyrier, 1985) ISBN 9782851993779
- Decottignies, J., Pierre Klossowski. Biographie d’un monomane (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1997) ISBN 9782859395230
- Hill, Leslie, Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
- James, Ian, Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Legenda, 1999)
- Lugan-Dardigna, A.-M., Klossowski. L’homme aux simulacres (Paris: Navarin, 1986) ISBN 2-86827-044-1
- Madou, J.-P., Démons et simulacres dan l’œuvre de Pierre Klossowski (Paris: Méridiens Klincksiek, 1987) ISBN 9782865631827
- Marroni, A., Klossowski e la comunicazione artistica (Palermo: Aesthetica preprint, 39, 1993)
- Marroni, A., Pierre Klossowski. Sessualità, vizio e complotto nella filosofia (Milan: Costa & Nolan, 1999) ISBN 9788876483837
- Spira, Anthony, & Sarah Wilson, Pierre Klossowski (Ostfilden: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006) ISBN 3775717927
- Ubilluz, Juan Carlos, Sacred Eroticism: Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel (Bucknell University Press, 2006) ISBN 0838756255
[edit] External links
- Klossowski obituary from The Independent, August 14th 2001, by Ian James
- Book review and biography, by Brett Bowles
- Pierre Klossowski biography by Elena Filipovic, focussing on his drawing
- Pierre Klossowski page on the-artists.org
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