bibliography:
Pierre Klossowski: Works in English & Translations
compiled by Rainer j. Hanshe
FICTION
Roberte Ce Soir – and – The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, tr. by Austryn Wainhouse (New York: Dalkey Archive Press, 2002 [1950 and 1959]).
The Baphomet, tr. by Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes (New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1998 [1965]). Introduction by Michel Foucault.
Diana at Her Bath; The Women of Rome, tr. by Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes (New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1998 [1956 and 1968]).
L' adolescent immortel (Paris: Gallimard, 2001).*
Le Mage du Nord (Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1988).*
Les derniers travaux de Gulliver (Paris: Fata Morgana, 1987).*
La Ressemblance (Marseille: André Dimanche, 1984).*
La Monnaie vivante (Paris: Éric Losfield, 1970).*
Le Souffleur ou le théâtre de société (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960).*
La Vocation suspendue (Paris: Gallimard, 1950).*
PHILOSOPHY & CRITICISM
Such a Deathly Desire, tr. by Russell Ford (New York: SUNY Press, 2007).
Écrits d'un monomane: Essais 1933-1939 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001).*
Tableaux vivants: Essais critiques 1936-1983 (Paris: Gallimard, 2001).*
“Tragedy” and “The Marquis de Sade and the Revolution” in Denis Hollier, ed., The College of Sociology (1937-39), tr. by Betsy Wing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998).
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, tr. by Daniel W. Smith (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
“Sade, or the philosopher-villain” in David B. Allison, Mark S. Roberts, Allen S. Weiss, Sade and the Narrative of Transgression (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995): 33-61.
Sade My Neighbor, tr. by Alphonso Lingis (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991).
“Nietzsche’s Experience of the Eternal Return” in David B. Allison, The New Nietzsche (Boston: MIT Press, 1985): 107-120.
“Nature as Destructive Principle” in Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, tr. by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver (New York: Grove Press, 1966): 65-90.
“A Destructive Philosophy” in Yale French Studies, 35 (December 1965): 61-79.
“Balthus Beyond Realism” in Art News, vol. 55, no. 8 (December 1956): 26-31. In James Elkins, Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis (California: Stanford University Press, 1999), this is listed as written by Stanislas Klossowski de Rola.
* Not yet translated into English.
PAINTING
Pierre Klossowski, featuring essays by Anthony Spira and Sarah Wilson (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006). Exhibition Catalogue. White Chapel Gallery London 20 September - 19 November 2006; Ludwig Museum Cologne 21 December 2006 - 18 March 2007; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 2 April - 4 June 2007.
Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, Decadence of the Nude, tr. by Alyce Mahon (London: Black Dog Pub, 2002).
Jacques Henric, “Pierre Klossowski peintre” in Art Press, 136 (May 1989): 30-32.
B. Maestri, “Pierre Klossowski” in Artforum, 24 (March 1986).
Paul Foss, Paul Taylor, Allen S Weiss, “Phantasm and Simulacra: The Drawings of Pierre Klossowski” in Art & Text, 18 (July 1985). Special edition that includes the following Klossowski texts: “On The Collaboration Of Demons In The Work Of Art”; “The Decline Of The Nude”; “The Phantasms Of Perversion: Sade & Fourier”; “In The Charm Of The Head”; and “Simulacra.”
Max Weschler, “Pierre Klossowski” in Artforum, 22 (1984).
G.G. Lemaire, “From the Invisible Painting to the Mute Poems” in Flash Art, 114 (1983).
Catherina Francblin, “Pierre Klossowski: the Voyeur and his Counterpart” in Flash Art, 107 (May 1982): 22-27.
“Klossowski by Klossowski” in Flash Art, 107 (May 1982). Translated by Paul Blanchard.
Pierre Klossowski & Remy Zaugg, Simulacrum (Berne Kunsthalle, 1981): 124.
PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI (Schwarz Gallery, 1970).
Franco Cagnetta, “De Luxuria” in Art & Artists (August 1970).
“The Falling Nymphs” (“Decadence of the Nude”) in Art News Annual, no. 33 (1967).
FILM
Ian Kerkhof, La Séquence des barres parallèles (1992, 7 minutes, 16mm). Script based on a novel by Klossowski.
Raoul Ruiz, L’Hypothèse du tableau vole [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting] (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel: 1979, 66 minutes, 35mm). Script by Pierre Klossowski. Available as a double DVD with Ruiz 1978 from Facets Video (2006).
Pierre Zucca, Roberte (Filmoblic: 1979, 104 minutes, 35mm). Adaptation and dialogue by Klossowski and based on his La révocation de l'édit de Nantes. Klossowski also appears in this film as a performer as does his wife Denise Morin-Sinclaire.
Raoul Ruiz, La Vocation suspendue (1978, 90 minutes, 35mm). Based on Klossowski’s The Suspended Vocation.
Pierre Zucca, La Cage de Pierre (1968, 35 minutes, 35mm). Also known as: La Gouvernante abusive.
TRANSLATIONS BY KLOSSOWSKI
Friedrich Nietzsche, Fragments Posthumes, 1887-1888 (Paris: Gallimard, 1976).
Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche (Paris: Gallimard, 1971).
Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas Salome, “Correspondance entre Rainer Maria Rilke et Lou Andréas Salomé” in Le Nouveau Commerce (Spring/Summer 1967): 91-123.
Virgil, L’ Enéide (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
Li-Yu, Jeou-P’ ou-T’ ouan ou la Chair comme tapis de prière (Paris: Jean-Jazques Pauvert, 1962).
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus & Investigations philosophiques (Paris: Gallimard, 1961).
Paul Klee, Journal (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1959).
Suetonius, Vie des douze Césars (Paris: Club français du Livre, 1959).
Minutes of the trial of Gilles de Rais, in Le Procès de Gilles de Rais, text presented by Georges Bataille (Paris: Club français du Livre, 1959). In English, George Bataille, The Trials of Gilles de Rais (Los Angeles: Amok, 1991).
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gai Savoir et Fragments Posthumes, 1880-1882 (Paris: Club français du Livre, 1954).
Tertullian, Du Sommeil, des songes et de la mort in La Licorne (Paris: Winter, 1948): 101-119.
Les Méditations bibliques de Hamann, avec une étude de Hegel (Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1948).
J.G. Hamann, Métacritique du purisme de la raison pure in Deucalion, 1 (August 1946): 233-243.
Franz Kafka, Journal intime de Franz Kafka (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1945).
Sören Kierkegaard, Antigone (Paris: Les Nouvelles Lettres, 1938).
Friedrich Sieburg, Robespierre (E. Flammarion, 1937). Translated with John Dilke.
Walter Benjamin, “L’Angoisse mythique chez Goethe” in Les Cahiers du Sud (May/June, 1937): 342-348.
Walter Benjamin, ‘L’Oeuvre d’art à l’ époque de sa reproduction mécanisée” in Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, V, I (Paris: Alcan, 1936): S. 40-68.
Max Scheller, Le Sens de la souffrance (Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1936).
Friedrich Sieburg, Défense du nationalisme allemand (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1933).
Otto Flake, Le Marquis de Sade (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1933).
Franz Kafka, Le Verdict in Bifur, 5 (1930): 5-17. Translated with Pierre Leyris.
Friedrich Hölderlin, Poèmes de la folie de Hölderlin (Paris: Fourcade, 1930). Translated with Pierre-Jean Jouve.
WORKS ON
Tracy McNulty, The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). In particular, see chapter three (87-133), “Under the Sign of the Hostess: Pierre Klossowski’s Laws of Hospitality.”
Juan Carlos Ubilluz, Sacred Eroticism: Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel (Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2006).
Ian James, Russell Ford, Whispers of the Flesh: Essays in Memory of Pierre Klossowski (Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Ravit Reichman, “Pierre Klossowski: The Suspended Self” in Dan Stone, Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust (New York: Rodopi, 2001): 55-78.
Eleanor Kaufman, The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski (Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Leslie Hill, Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Ian James, Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Oxford: University of Oxford European Humanities Research Centre, 2000).
Scott Durham, Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism (California: Stanford University Press, 1998).
Bernard Henri Lévy, Adventures on the Freedom Road: The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century, tr. by Richard Veasey (New York: Harvill Press, 1995).
Jean-Francois Lyotard “Libidinal Economy in Sade and Klossowski” in David B. Allison, Mark S. Roberts, Allen S. Weiss, Sade and the Narrative of Transgression (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995): 62-75.
Michel Foucault, “The Prose of Actaeon” in Pierre Klossowski, The Baphomet, tr. by Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli (New York: Eridanos Press, 1988): xxi-xxxviii. Also available in Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 vol. 2 (New York: The New Press, 1998): 123-135.
Jeffrey Mehlman, “Literature and Hospitality: Klossowski’s Hamman” in Studies in Romanticism, vol. 22, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 329-347.
Kevin Clark, “On Klossowski and the Problem of Transcription” in Modern Language Notes, vol. XLVIII, no. 97 (1982): 827-839.
Jane Gallop, Intersections: A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot and Klossowski (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981).
Pierre Klossowski, “Forgetting and Anamnesis” in Semiotexte, 1 (1978): 138-149. Translated by Susan Hanson.
Patrick Wald Lasowski, “Un soufflé unique” in Glyph, 6 (1976).
Ronald Rice, “Theological Pornography. A Non-Reading of Klossowski’s Robert, ce soir” in Substance, 10 (1974).