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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.
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[[Image:Pierre_Klossowski.jpg|thumb|350px|Pierre Klossowski. Photo: Jean-Regis Rouston.]]
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'''Pierre Klossowski''' (9 August 1905, Paris – 12 August 2001, Paris) was a novelist, visual artist, translator, philosopher, critic, and actor. He was born in Paris to parents of noble Polish origin; his younger brother, the painter Balthus, arrived three years later. Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother's lover, introduced the young Klossowski to André Gide, for whom he worked as a secre­ tary during the period of the composition of ''The Counterfeiters''. Klossowski translated Holderlin in collaboration with the author Pierre Jean Jouve, joined [[Georges Bataille]] in both the review and secret society [[Acéphale]], and flirted with entering a monastery during the years of World War II--an experience recounted and satirized in his first novel, ''The Suspended Vocation''. In 1947, Klossowski married the Resistance member Marie-Roberte Morin-Sinclaire, who, lightly fictionalized, became the central figure in his trilogy of erotic-philosophical novels known under the collective title ''The Laws of Hospitality'.
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Klossowski appeared in Robert Bresson's film ''Au hasard Balthazar'', collaborated with the Chilean expatriate [[Raúl Ruiz]] on two films for television--including an adap­tation of ''The Suspended Vocation''--and starred as his own character Octave in Pierre Zucca's film ''Roberte'', which adapts scenes from the ''Laws of Hospitality'' novels.
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Klossowski died at the age of ninety-six. [https://monoskop.org/images/8/80/Klossowski_Pierre_The_Suspended_Vocation_2020.pdf#page=91 (Source)]
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==
 
===Books===
 
===Books===
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* ''Sade mon prochain'', Paris: Seuil, 1947.
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[[Image:Klossowski_Pierre_Sade_mon_prochain_1947.jpg|thumb|350px|''Sade mon prochain'', 1947, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58dd26c3a0ec1117d1300 PDF].]]
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58dd26c3a0ec1117d1300 Sade mon prochain]'', Paris: Seuil, 1947; new ed., preceded by ''Le Philosophe scélérat'', Paris: Seuil, 1967.
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5a2589c59ff37c4f0609f931 Das Denken des Marquis de Sade]'', Frankfurt: Fischer, 1988. {{de}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6962 Sade My Neighbor]'', trans. & intro. Alphonso Lingis, Northwestern University Press, 1991, 144 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=6962 Sade My Neighbor]'', trans. & intro. Alphonso Lingis, Northwestern University Press, 1991, 144 pp. {{en}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5b542d0f9ff37c5f1b622bd3 Sade prossimo mio]'', SE, 2017, 144 pp. {{it}}
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* ''La Vocation suspendue'', Paris: Gallimard, 1950. Novel. [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/55a758e1334fe06cd8fdc2b9 Excerpt].
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/52176449307888af0a000147 La vocacion suspendida]'', trans. Michele Alban and Juan Garcia Ponce, Mexico: Era, 1975. {{es}}
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** ''[[Media:Klossowski Pierre The Suspended Vocation 2020.pdf|The Suspended Vocation]]'', trans. Jeremy M. Davies and Anna Fitzgerald, intro. Brian Evenson, Small Press, 2020, 75 pp. {{en}}
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* ''Roberte, ce soir'', Paris: Minuit, 1953; new ed. in Klossowski, ''Les Lois de l'hospitalité'', Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
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** "Roberte ce soir", in Klossowski, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/54c471e9334fe022f4e33bb0 Roberte ce soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes]'', trans. Austryn Wainhouse, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. {{en}}
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* ''Le Bain de Diane'', Paris: Pauvert, 1956.
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5b87b9169ff37c73c0622bd8 Das Bad der Diana]'', trans. Sigrid von Massenbach, Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1982. {{de}}
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** "Diana at Her Bath", in Klossowski, ''[[Media:Klossowski_Pierre_Diana_at_Her_Bath_The_Women_of_Rome_1998.pdf|Diana at Her Bath / The Women of Rome]]'', trans. Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli, New York: Marsilio, 1998, 138 pp. {{en}}
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* ''La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes'', Paris: Minuit, 1959; new ed. in Klossowski, ''Les Lois de l'hospitalité'', Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
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** "The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes", in Klossowski, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/54c471e9334fe022f4e33bb0 Roberte ce soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes]'', trans. Austryn Wainhouse, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. {{en}}
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* ''Le Souffleur ou Un théâtre de société'', Paris: Pauvert, 1960; new ed. in Klossowski, ''Les Lois de l'hospitalité'', Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
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* ''Un si funeste désir'', Paris: Gallimard, 1963. Collection of essays.
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0b511000 Such a Deathly Desire]'', trans. Russell Ford, State University of New York Press, 2007. {{en}}
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/530cf130307888e22f000049 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''.
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* ''Le Baphomet'', Paris: Mercure de France, 1965.
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** ''[[Media:Klossowski Pierre The Baphomet 1988.pdf|The Baphomet]]'', trans. Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli, forew. Michel Foucault, Hygiene, CO: Eridanos Press, 1988. {{en}}
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* ''Origines cultuelles et mythiques d'un certain comportement des Dames Romaines'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1968; new ed., 2010.
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** "The Women of Rome", in Klossowski, ''[[Media:Klossowski_Pierre_Diana_at_Her_Bath_The_Women_of_Rome_1998.pdf|Diana at Her Bath / The Women of Rome]]'', trans. Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli, New York: Marsilio, 1998, 138 pp. {{en}}
  
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* ''Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux'', Paris: Mercure de France, 1969; [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5091 rev.ed.], 1978, 367 pp.
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/54f7e204334fe00ccfaf33f5 Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux]'', Paris: Mercure de France, 1969; [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5091 rev.ed.], 1978, 367 pp.
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5b848e699ff37c33bc622bc9 Nietzsche e il circolo vizioso]'', trans. Enzo Turolla, Milan: Adelphi, 1981. {{it}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/560a427e334fe03b371be0e4 Nietzsche und der Circulus vitiosus deus]'', Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 1986. {{de}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5091 Nietzsche y el circulo vicioso]'', trans. Roxana Páez, 1995. {{es}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5091 Nietzsche y el circulo vicioso]'', trans. Roxana Páez, 1995. {{es}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5091 Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle]'', trans. Daniel W. Smith, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 282 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5091 Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle]'', trans. Daniel W. Smith, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 282 pp. {{en}}
  
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5083 La monnaie vivante]'', Paris: Joëlle Losfield, 1970.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5083 La monnaie vivante]'', Paris: Joëlle Losfield, 1970; repr., 1994, 79 pp; new ed., Paris: Gallimard, 2003. With photographs by Pierre Zucca.
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** ''Lebendes Geld'', Bremen: Impuls, 1982. {{de}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5083 La moneda viviente]'', trans. Axel Gasquet, Cordoba, Argentina: Alcion, 1998, 61 pp. {{es}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5083 La moneda viviente]'', trans. Axel Gasquet, Cordoba, Argentina: Alcion, 1998, 61 pp. {{es}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5083 Living Currency]'', trans. Jordan Levinson, self-published, 2012, 32 pp. {{en}}
 
** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5083 Living Currency]'', trans. Jordan Levinson, self-published, 2012, 32 pp. {{en}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58f4b2169ff37c4e16cb1ddf 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. {{en}}
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/56d25c5a9ff37c6b3a9b2cd6 Les derniers travaux de Gulliver, suivi de Sade et Fourier]'', Montpellier, Fata morgana, 1974.
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/56d1eaad9ff37c6b3a9b2c5d La Ressemblance]'', Marseille: Dimanche, 1984. Collection of articles followed by an interview with Alain Arnaud..
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/56d1eba49ff37c6b3c9b2c66 Le Mage du Nord]'', Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1988. Essay on Hamann and translations of ''Lettres de J. G. Hamann'' and ''Golgotha et Scheblimini''.
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* ''L'adolescent immortel'', Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
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** ''The Immortal Adolescent'', trans. Catherine Petit and Paul Buck, London: Vauxhall&Company, 2014. {{en}}
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====Selected essays====
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* [[Media:Anthologie des ecrits de Pierre Klossowski sur lart 1990.pdf|"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.
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* ''Écrits d'un monomane: essais 1933-1939'', Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
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* ''Tableaux vivants: essais critiques, 1936-1983'', Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
  
 
===Book chapters, papers, statements===
 
===Book chapters, papers, statements===
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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
 
* Sarah Wilson, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120229212545/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/wilson-sarah/KLOSSOWSKI.pdf "Pierre Klossowski: Epiphanies and secrets"], n.d. {{en}}
 
* Sarah Wilson, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120229212545/http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/wilson-sarah/KLOSSOWSKI.pdf "Pierre Klossowski: Epiphanies and secrets"], n.d. {{en}}
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* ''Initiales'' 9: "PK (Pierre Klossowski)", ed. Jérôme Mauche, Lyon: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Apr 2017, 128 pp. [https://www.revueinitiales.com/pierre-klossowski] {{fr}}

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Pierre Klossowski. Photo: Jean-Regis Rouston.

Pierre Klossowski (9 August 1905, Paris – 12 August 2001, Paris) was a novelist, visual artist, translator, philosopher, critic, and actor. He was born in Paris to parents of noble Polish origin; his younger brother, the painter Balthus, arrived three years later. Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother's lover, introduced the young Klossowski to André Gide, for whom he worked as a secre­ tary during the period of the composition of The Counterfeiters. Klossowski translated Holderlin in collaboration with the author Pierre Jean Jouve, joined Georges Bataille in both the review and secret society Acéphale, and flirted with entering a monastery during the years of World War II--an experience recounted and satirized in his first novel, The Suspended Vocation. In 1947, Klossowski married the Resistance member Marie-Roberte Morin-Sinclaire, who, lightly fictionalized, became the central figure in his trilogy of erotic-philosophical novels known under the collective title The Laws of Hospitality'.

Klossowski appeared in Robert Bresson's film Au hasard Balthazar, collaborated with the Chilean expatriate Raúl Ruiz on two films for television--including an adap­tation of The Suspended Vocation--and starred as his own character Octave in Pierre Zucca's film Roberte, which adapts scenes from the Laws of Hospitality novels.

Klossowski died at the age of ninety-six. (Source)

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

Sade mon prochain, 1947, PDF.
  • La Vocation suspendue, Paris: Gallimard, 1950. Novel. Excerpt.
    • La vocacion suspendida, trans. Michele Alban and Juan Garcia Ponce, Mexico: Era, 1975. (Spanish)
    • The Suspended Vocation, trans. Jeremy M. Davies and Anna Fitzgerald, intro. Brian Evenson, Small Press, 2020, 75 pp. (English)
  • Le Bain de Diane, Paris: Pauvert, 1956.
  • La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes, Paris: Minuit, 1959; new ed. in Klossowski, Les Lois de l'hospitalité, Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • La monnaie vivante, Paris: Joëlle Losfield, 1970; repr., 1994, 79 pp; new ed., Paris: Gallimard, 2003. With photographs by Pierre Zucca.
  • L'adolescent immortel, Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
    • The Immortal Adolescent, trans. Catherine Petit and Paul Buck, London: Vauxhall&Company, 2014. (English)

Selected essays[edit]

  • "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[edit]

  • "Lettre sur Walter Benjamin", Mercure de France 315, 1952, pp 456-457; repr. in Klossowski, Tableaux vivants: essais critiques, 1936-1983, Paris: Gallimard, 2001.

Literature[edit]

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