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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'' influenced French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard and others.
He is the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus.

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Secondary texts

External links

Bibliography

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| 1947
| ''Sade mon prochain'' (Paris: Seuil, 1947)
| ''Sade my neighbour'' trans. by Alphonso Lingis (Northwestern University Press, 1991)
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| 1950
| ''La Vocation suspendue'' (Paris: Gallimard,1950)
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| 1963
| ''Un si funeste désir'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1963)
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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
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| 2001
| ''Écrits d'un monomane: Essais 1933-1939'' (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
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| 2001
| ''Tableaux vivants: Essais critiques 1936-1983'' (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
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| 2001
| ''L'adolescent immortel'' (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
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| 2003
| ''La Monnaie vivante'' (Paris: Gallimard, 2003)
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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]

Secondary texts

★ 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)

★ Spira, Anthony and Sarah Wilson, ''Pierre Klossowski'' (Ostfilden: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006) ISBN 3775717927

★ Ubilluz, Juan Carlos, ''Sacred Eroticism: George Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel'' (Bucknell University Press, 2006) ISBN: 0838756255

External links

★ Book review and biography, by Brett Bowles

★ Pierre Klossowski biography by Elena Filipovic, focussing on his drawing

★ Pierre Klossowski page on the-artists.org