Pierre Louÿs
Also known as
Pierre Louÿs, pseudonym of Pierre Louis (born Dec. 10, 1870, Ghent, Belgium—died June 4, 1925, Paris, France), French novelist and poet whose merit and limitation were to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection. Louÿs frequented Parnassian and Symbolist circles and was a friend of the composer Claude Debussy. He founded short-lived literary reviews, notably La Conque (1891). His Chansons de Bilitis (1894), prose poems about Sapphic love, purporting to be translations from the Greek, deceived even experts. Aphrodite (1896), a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, made him famous. His best novel is La Femme et le pantin (1898; Woman and Puppet), which is set in Spain. Louÿs’s popularity, which rested more on his eroticism than on purely aesthetic grounds, has faded. [Encyclopædia Britannica]
Born 1870-01-01
Died 1925-01-01
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL124895A
- VIAF49228364
- WikidataQ334958
- ISNI0000000069227765
- LibriVox5982
- Project Gutenberg1554
Top Subjects
- French Aesthetics (1)
- Narcissus (Greek mythology) (1)
- 19th century (1)
- French Fiction (1)
- Translations into English (1)
- French Erotic literature (1)
- Drama (1)
Books by Pierre Louÿs
Total count: 18
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Le traité du Narcisse (théorie du symbole)Librairie de l'art indépndant1891-01-01
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Lêda, ou, La louange des bienheureuses ténèbresLibraire de l'Art independent1893-01-01
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L'homme de pourpreLibrairie L. Borel 21, quai Malaquais, 211901-01-01
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Les aventures du roi PausoleBibliothèque-Charpentier, E. Fasquelle1901-01-01
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Ancient mannerscomplete and integral translation into EnglishPrivately printed for subscribers only [by C. Herrissey, Evreux, for C. Carrington1906-01-01
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La batailleA. Fayard1909-01-01
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Les poèmes idiotsoeuvre posthumeÉdition de "L'Heure qui Sonne, " Revue des lettres1911-01-01
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AphroditeOper in einem AktJosef Weinberger1912-01-01
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Woman and puppet, etcBrentano's1913-01-01
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Nepravá EsterapovídkyVyd. Kamilla Neumannová1914-01-01
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The songs of Bilitis1919-01-01
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Quatorze imagesprose inédites de Pierre LouÿsEditions Briant-Robert1925-01-01
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Le crépuscule des nymphes. Avec 10 lithographies de BosshardÉditions Briant-Robert1926-01-01
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A vida amorosa de Bilitisseculo VIJ. Rodrigues & ca.1927-01-01
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Contes antiquesAux éditions du bois sacré1929-01-01
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Black opium(Fumée d'opium)Issued privately for subscribers by Robert C. Fairberg1931-01-01
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Poésies érotiquespublisher not identified1937-01-01
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Le sentiment de la familleAstarté1996-01-01