S9.com / Biographies /
1870 - Born on December 10th in Ghent, Belgium. French novelist and poet whose merit and limitation were to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection.
1891 - He founded short-lived literary reviews, notably La Conque.
1894 - His Chansons de Bilitis, prose poems about Sapphic love, purporting to be translations from the Greek, deceived even experts.
1896 - Aphrodite, a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, made him famous.
1898 - His best novel is La Femme et le pantin (Woman and Puppet), which is set in Spain.
1925 - Died on June 4th in Paris, France.
1891 - He founded short-lived literary reviews, notably La Conque.
1894 - His Chansons de Bilitis, prose poems about Sapphic love, purporting to be translations from the Greek, deceived even experts.
1896 - Aphrodite, a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, made him famous.
1898 - His best novel is La Femme et le pantin (Woman and Puppet), which is set in Spain.
1925 - Died on June 4th in Paris, France.
  | Page last updated: 12:12am, 26th Jun '07 |
Related Books
  |
The Collected Works of Pierre Louys by Pierre Louys (Mass Market Paperback - Aug 30, 2008) |
 |
  |
The Collected Tales of Pierre Louys by Pierre Louys (Hardcover - Aug 30, 2008) |
|
 |
Pybrac by Pierre Louys (Paperback - Jan 1, 1994) |
|
  |
Femme Et Le Patin, La - 40 - by Pierre Louys (Hardcover - Mar 2, 1995) |
|
  |
By Those Who Knew Them: French Modernists Left, Right, and Center by Harvey Hill and Louis-pierre Sardella and C. J. T. Talar (Hardcover - Oct 30, 2008) By Those Who Knew Themilluminates the lives of several key figures involved in the modernist movement--the movement for intellectual and structural renewal in turn-of-the-century Catholicism. The... Not yet published |
|
 |
Las canciones de Bilitis : traducidas del griego by Pierre Loüys (Paperback - Feb 28, 1994) |
|
