Pierre Klossowski (1905 in Paris - 2001) is a Romancier, Essayiste, Philosophe, Scénariste, Acteur and painter French.

Biography

Exit of a family of remote of Polish origin, Pierre Klossowski is the older brother of the painter Balthus. Their father, Eric Klossowski, were painter and historian of art; and their mother was a pupil of Pierre Bonnard.

The childhood and the adolescence of the two brothers thus occur in a medium from artists and writers. In their immediate entourage, the reports/ratios of intimacy with To groove Maria Rilke as with André Gide become determining for the respective orientations of the two boys: in particular for Pierre friendship of Gide which will take it in supervision, time to make him continue its secondary studies with the Lycée Janson-with-Sailly.

The daily contact with the author of Immoraliste will make emerge as a Pierre Klossowski a whole of moral dilemmas which will absorb it during long years before being able to be solved in the creation of a œuvre.
In 1928, it collaborates with Pierre Jean Jouve in the translation of the Poèmes of the madness of Friedrich Hölderlin.

Starting from 1935, after having attended the mediums of the Société of Parisian psychoanalysis, whose review published its first text on the Marquis de Sade, it meets Georges Bataille with which it binds of a major friendship which will last beyond the events until the death of this last. It is at the instigation of the latter that Pierre Klossowski will contact André Breton and Maurice Heine, in the Contre-Attaque group, and that, later, it will take part in the re-examined Acéphale and will bind with André Masson.

During the German Occupation, it undertakes studies of Scolastique and Théologie to the Dominican faculty of Saint Maximin, then with Lyon with the seminar of Fourvière, and finally with Paris, the catholic institute. It is in contact with networks of the Résistance. In the Release, he collaborates in the oecumenical review alive God . But, life income laic, it Marie in 1947, and publishes a resounding work, Sade my next .

In 1950, its first novel, the suspended Vocation , is one of the transpositions of the vicissitudes of its religious crisis. But most important of its novel is contained on the one hand in the trilogy of the Laws of hospitality , joining together on the one hand the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1959), Roberte, this evening (1954) and the Blower 1960) and on the other hand in Baphomet , (1965 - price of Criticisms).

Pierre Klossowski in addition expressed in the tests the Bath of Diane (1957), a so disastrous desire (1963) and mainly in a work exegetic Nietzsche and the vicious circle (1969).

Moreover, in the Cinema, he collaborated in film of Pierre Zucca, Roberte, this evening , and with those of Raul Ruiz, the Assumption of stolen table and the suspended Vocation .

However, starting from the Years 1980, it was devoted almost exclusively to painting. Exposures in France and abroad show that its reputation, in this field, made only grow. It received the National Grand Prix of the Letters, in 1981.

It is deceased on August 12th, 2001 at the 96 years age.

Quotation

" The gods taught with the men to contemplate themselves in the spectacle as the gods contemplate themselves in the imagination of the hommes" in the bath of Diane

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