Pierre Klossowski
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Pierre Klossowski (9 August 1905, Paris – 12 August 2001, Paris) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.
Works
Books
- Sade mon prochain, Paris: Seuil, 1947; new ed., preceded by Le Philosophe scélérat, Paris: Seuil, 1967.
- Das Denken des Marquis de Sade, Frankfurt: Fischer, 1988. (German)
- Sade My Neighbor, trans. & intro. Alphonso Lingis, Northwestern University Press, 1991, 144 pp. (English)
- La Vocation suspendue, Paris: Gallimard, 1950.
- Roberte, ce soir, Paris: Minuit, 1953; new ed. in Klossowski, Les Lois de l'hospitalité, Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
- "Roberte ce soir", in Klossowski, Roberte ce soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. (English)
- Le Bain de Diane, Paris: Pauvert, 1956.
- Das Bad der Diana, trans. Sigrid von Massenbach, Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1982. (German)
- "Diana at Her Bath", in Klossowski, Diana at Her Bath / The Women of Rome, trans. Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli, New York: Marsilio, 1998, 138 pp. (English)
- La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes, Paris: Minuit, 1959; new ed. in Klossowski, Les Lois de l'hospitalité, Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
- "The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes", in Klossowski, Roberte ce soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, trans. Austryn Wainhouse, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. (English)
- Le Souffleur ou Un théâtre de société, Paris: Pauvert, 1960; new ed. in Klossowski, Les Lois de l'hospitalité, Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
- Un si funeste désir, Paris: Gallimard, 1963. Collection of essays.
- Such a Deathly Desire, trans. Russell Ford, State University of New York Press, 2007. (English)
- Les Lois de l'hospitalité, Paris: Gallimard, 1965. Contains augmented versions of trilogy of the 'Roberte' novels: La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes; Roberte, ce soir; and Le Souffleur.
- Le Baphomet, Paris: Mercure de France, 1965.
- The Baphomet, trans. Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli, forew. Michel Foucault, Hygiene, CO: Eridanos Press, 1988. (English)
- Origines cultuelles et mythiques d'un certain comportement des Dames Romaines, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1968; new ed., 2010.
- "The Women of Rome", in Klossowski, Diana at Her Bath / The Women of Rome, trans. Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli, New York: Marsilio, 1998, 138 pp. (English)
- Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux, Paris: Mercure de France, 1969; rev.ed., 1978, 367 pp.
- Nietzsche e il circolo vizioso, trans. Enzo Turolla, Milan: Adelphi, 1981. (Italian)
- Nietzsche und der Circulus vitiosus deus, Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 1986. (German)
- Nietzsche y el circulo vicioso, trans. Roxana Páez, 1995. (Spanish)
- Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, trans. Daniel W. Smith, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 282 pp. (English)
- La monnaie vivante, Paris: Joëlle Losfield, 1970; repr., 1994, 79 pp; new ed., Paris: Gallimard, 2003. With photographs by Pierre Zucca.
- Lebendes Geld, Bremen: Impuls, 1982. (German)
- La moneda viviente, trans. Axel Gasquet, Cordoba, Argentina: Alcion, 1998, 61 pp. (Spanish)
- Living Currency, trans. Jordan Levinson, self-published, 2012, 32 pp. (English)
- Living Currency, followed by Sade and Fourier, eds. Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar, and Daniel W. Smith, trans. Paul Foss-Heimlich, et al., Bloomsbury, 2017. (English)
- Les derniers travaux de Gulliver, suivi de Sade et Fourier, Montpellier, Fata morgana, 1974.
- La Ressemblance, Marseille: Dimanche, 1984. Collection of articles followed by an interview with Alain Arnaud..
- Le Mage du Nord, Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1988. Essay on Hamann and translations of Lettres de J. G. Hamann and Golgotha et Scheblimini.
- L'adolescent immortel, Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
- The Immortal Adolescent, trans. Catherine Petit and Paul Buck, London: Vauxhall&Company, 2014. (English)
Selected essays
- "Anthologie des écrits de Pierre Klossowski sur l'art", in Pierre Klossowski, Paris: Fondation nationale des arts graphiques et plastiques, 1990, 162-199. Section in exhibition catalogue.
- Écrits d'un monomane: essais 1933-1939, Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
- Tableaux vivants: essais critiques, 1936-1983, Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
Book chapters, papers, statements
- "Lettre sur Walter Benjamin", Mercure de France 315, 1952, pp 456-457; repr. in Klossowski, Tableaux vivants: essais critiques, 1936-1983, Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
- "Letter on Walter Benjamin", trans. Christian Hite, Parrhesia 19, 2014, pp 14-21. (English)
Literature
- Sarah Wilson, "Pierre Klossowski: Epiphanies and secrets", n.d. (English)
- Initiales 9: "PK (Pierre Klossowski)", ed. Jérôme Mauche, Lyon: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Apr 2017, 128 pp. [1] (French)