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Pierre Klossowski (1905 – August 12, 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist.

Born in Paris in 1905, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by Virgil, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Hölderlin, Kafka, Nietzsche, Benjamin) into French, worked on films and was also a painter, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. Klossowski participated in most issues of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in the late 1930s.

His book Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle and previous papers included within were a huge influence on French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard and many others.

He is the older brother of the artist Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus.

Contents 1 Bibliography 2 Translations 3 Secondary texts 4 External links

• (English)/(French) Sade my neighbour (Quartet Bks., 1992, ISBN 0-7043-0155-5; original French ed. Sade mon prochain, Paris, Seuil, 1947)
• (French) La Vocation suspendue (Paris: Gallimard,1950)
• (French) Un si funeste désir (Paris: Gallimard, 1963)
• (English)/(French) The Baphomet (Marsilio Pub, 1992, ISBN 0-941419-73-8 ; original French ed. Le Baphomet, Paris, Mercure de France, 1965)
• (French) Les Lois de l'hospitalité (Paris: Gallimard, 1965) (trilogy of the 'Roberte' novels: La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes (1959), Roberte ce soir (1954), and Le Souffleur (1960))
• (English)/(French) Roberte Ce Soir and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Dalkey Archive Press, 2002, ISBN 1-56478-309-X
• (English)/(French) Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0-226-44387-6; other ed. 2001 ISBN 0-485-12133-6; original version Paris, Mercure de France, 1969)
• (English)/(French) Diana at Her Bath/the Women of Rome Marsilio Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-56886-055-2 (original edition Le Bain de Diane, Paris, Gallimard, 1980)
• (French) Écrits d'un monomane: Essais 1933-1939 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
• (French) Tableaux vivants: Essais critiques 1936-1983 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
• (French) L'adolescent immortel (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)
• (French) La Monnaie vivante (Paris: Gallimard, 2003)

• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus suivi de Investigations philosophiques
• Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir

• Ian James, Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Legenda, 1999)
• Leslie Hill, Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

• Book review and biography, by Brett Bowles
• Pierre Klossowski biography by Elena Filipovic, focussing on his drawing