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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: Aphrodite: drame musical en 7 tableaux

    First published in 1905 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Correspondance, 1890-1913

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  • Cover of: Pierre Louys, Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis: Two Erotic Tales from the Fin de Siecle

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  • Cover of: Mon journal: 22 mai 1888 - 14 mars 1890

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  • Cover of: Contes: précédés de Les trois roses de Marie Anne.

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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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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 28, 2020 Edited by Camillo Pellizzari merge authors
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August 27, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Western Washington University MARC record.