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André Pieyre de Mandiargues


Born
in Paris, France
March 14, 1909

Died
December 13, 1991

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André Pieyre de Mandiargues was a French writer born in Paris. He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo De Pisis). He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini.

His novel La Marge (1967) won the Prix Goncourt and was made into a film of the same name by Walerian Borowczyk in 1976. It is his collection of pornographic items that is featured in Borowczyk's Une collection particuliere. He also wrote an introduction to Pauline Reage's Story of O.

His book Feu de braise (1959) was published in 1971 in an English translation by April FitzLyon called Blaze of Embers (Calder and Boyars, 1971).
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The Girl Beneath the Lion

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Le musée noir

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Soleil des loups

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Feu de braise

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Le Deuil Des Roses: Nouvelles

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満潮 [Mascarets]

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Το αίμα του αμνού - Ροδογύνη

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“It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either they are working toward the elaboration of a revolutionary morality, or they echo the morality of their age, against which they are protesting.”
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