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Name
  
Pierre Klossowski

Role
  
Writer

Siblings
  
Balthus


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Books
  
The Baphomet, La Monnaie vivante

Parents
  
Erich Klossowski, Baladine Klossowska

Movies
  
Au Hasard Balthazar, The Hypothesis of the Stol, The Suspended Vocation, La Cage de Pierre

Similar People
  

Born
  
9 August 1905 Paris, France

Died
  
12 August 2001 (aged 96) Paris, France

Occupation(s)
  
Writer, translator and artist

Nationality
  
French

Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905 in Paris – August 12, 2001 in 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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Life

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Born in Paris, Pierre Klossowski was the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus. Their parents were the art historian Erich Klossowski and the painter Baladine Klossowska. His German-educated father came from a family supposedly belonging to the former Polish petty nobility (drobna szlachta) and bearing the Rola coat of arms. His mother, Baladine Klossowska, was born as Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland).

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He was responsible for a new publication of The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings by Marquis de Sade in 1964.

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When he was 18, Pierre was André Gide's secretary and worked on the drafts of Les faux-monnayeurs for him.

Writing

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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. Roberte Ce Soir (Roberte in the Evening) provoked controversy due to its graphic depiction of sexuality. 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.

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His 1969 book, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, greatly influenced French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Film

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Klossowski also appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar as the avaricious miller who desires Marie, a character played by Anne Wiazemsky.

He was involved in:

  • Raoul Ruiz's La vocation suspendue, 1977, 90';
  • Raoul Ruiz's L'hypothèse du tableau volé, 1979, 66';
  • Pierre Zucca's Roberte, 1979, 100';
  • Alain Fleischer's Pierre Klossowski ou l'éternel détour, 1996, 106'.
  • His text on de Sade is mentioned in the bibliography at the beginning of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and quoted several times through the film.

    Drawing

    From 20 September to 19 October 2006 there was a display of Klossowski's drawings and life size sculptures made after them with sculptor Jean-Paul Réti along with the art of Hans Bellmer at the Whitechapel Art Gallery also presented at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris with a film retrospective.

    References

    Pierre Klossowski Wikipedia