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Herve Castanet
This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001). Admired as a writer, theorist and painter, Klossowski’s oeuvre is here explored in its entirety, focusing on…
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Ian James
Novelist, essayist, translator and painter Pierre Klossowski (1905-) is one of the most singular figures in twentieth-century French thought and writing. His readings of Sade and Nietzsche exerted a decisive…
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Pierre Klossowski
Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the wake of the savagery of the Second World War. That era’s union of cold technology…
Provocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment.
Now published in English, this work takes a structuralist approach to the relation between Nietzsche’s thought and his life. The author emphasizes the centrality of the notion of eternal return…
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Juan Carlos Ubilluz
Sacred Eroticism: Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel addresses a neglected chapter in the field of Latin American literature: the influence of Georges Bataille and…
Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary Frech fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before…
Charles Freeland
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.
‘I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I…
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Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry and anthropology, Polysexuality became the encyclopedia sexualis of a continent that is still emerging.
