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Pierre Klossowski

Born

in Paris, France

August 09, 1905

Died

August 12, 2001

Genre

Fiction, Philosophy, Art

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Sade, Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Del ...more

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Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905, Paris – August 12, 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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	Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle by Pierre Klossowski, Daniel W. Smith (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1969 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Baphomet by Pierre Klossowski, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator), Sophie Hawkes (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Currency by Pierre Klossowski, Daniel W. Smith (Editor), Nicolae Morar (Editor) 3.99 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1970	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sade My Neighbor by Pierre Klossowski, Alphonso Lingis (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1947 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Pierre Klossowski, Austryn Wainhouse (Translator), Michael Perkins (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1953 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il bagno di Diana 3.65 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1956 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diana at Her Bath / The Women of Rome by Pierre Klossowski, Sophie Hawkes (Translator), Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1956 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suspended Vocation by Pierre Klossowski, Jeremy M. Davies (Translator), Anna Fitzgerald (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1950 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roberte ce soir 2.98 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1953 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Such a Deathly Desire by Pierre Klossowski, Russell Ford (Translator, editor, afterword) 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Pierre Klossowski

Les Lois de l'hospitalité (3 books)
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Pierre Klossowski,

Giancarlo Marmori (Translator)

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Quotes by Pierre Klossowski (?)

“There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his ‘truths’, as the sun does its light. - Isn’t it rather a pity that the void has no ears?”
― Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle

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“The landscape of Turin, the monumental squares, the promenades along the Po river, were bathed in a kind of 'Claude Lorraine' luminosity (Dostoyevsky's golden age), a diaphonousness that removed the weight of things and made them recede into a infinite distance. The stream of light here became a stream of laughter - the laughter from which truth emerges, the laughter in which identities explode, including Nietzsche's. What also exploded is the meaning that things can have or lose for other things, not in terms of limited linkage or narrow context, but in terms of variations of light”
― Pierre Klossowski

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“Les dieux ont enseigné aux hommes à se contempler eux-mêmes dans le spectacle comme les dieux se contemplent eux-mêmes dans l'imagination des hommes.”
― Pierre Klossowski

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