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Pierre Louÿs

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.
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French writer and poet (1870–1925)

Born 1870
Died 1925

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  • Cover of: Journal intime: 1882 -1891.

    First published in 1929 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: La femme et le pantin, piece en 4 actes [par] Pierre Louÿs [et] Pierre Frondaie.: Représentée pour la première fois au Théatre Antoine le 8 déc. 1910.

    First published in 1911 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: poëmes.: Éd. definitive, établie par Yves Gérard le Dantec, avec un port. en lithographie par Jacques Ernotte.

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  • Cover of: Littérature: suivie de livres anciens et de inscriptions et belles lettres.

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  • Cover of: Pierre Louÿs et l'histoire littéraire.: Lettres à Frédéric Lachèvre. Supplément, 1919-1921.

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  • Cover of: Poésies complètes: premiers vers - Astarté - Chrysis - stances et poésies diverses - derniers vers.

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  • Cover of: Poëtique: suivi de théatre, projets et fragments.

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  • Cover of: Suite a poëtique.

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    First published in 1927 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Pierre Louys y Andalucía: cartas inéditas y fragmentos = lettre inédites et fragments

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French writer and poet (1870–1925)

Born 1870
Died 1925
Subjects
Fiction, French Erotic literature, Correspondence, Fiction, erotica, general, French Authors, Translations into English, Lesbians, French Erotic poetry, Poetry, Authors, French, Diaries, Erotic literature, French, Control (Psychology), Erotic poetry, Erotic stories, French, Erotica, French Erotic stories, French Historical fiction, French poetry, Greek Mythology, History, Manipulative behavior, Masochism, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Rare books
Places
Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt, France, Greece, Alexandria, Andalusia (Spain), Sevilla
People
Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), Georges Louis (1847-1917), Henri de Régnier (1864-1936), Jean Cassou (1897-), Curnonsky (1873-1956), Georges Louis, Gérard d' Houville (1875-1963), Jean de Tinan (1874-1898), Maurice Quillot, Natalie Clifford Barney, Pierre Loüys (1870-1925), Pierre de Montera, Renée Vivien (1877-1909), Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Time
20th century, 19th century, 332-30 B.C., 1870-1925, 1900, Ancient Times

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Alternative names

  • Pierre Louys
  • Pierre Louis
  • Pierre Louÿs
  • Pierre Louýs
  • Pierre Loüys

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August 27, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Western Washington University MARC record