Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs has written at least 28 books. Their most popular book is French Decadent Tales with 4 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.
Author Bio
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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2013 • 4 Readers • 231 pages • 4
1894 • 3 Readers • 192 pages
#2 of 4 in Atlas Arkhive
1896 • 3 Readers • 304 pages • 4
1894 • 1 Reader
1932 • 1 Reader • 448 pages
1926 • 1 Reader • 220 pages
2018 • 1 Reader • 442 pages
1 Reader
1926 • 1 Reader • 4
1894 • 1 Reader • 176 pages • 3
1898 • 1 Reader • 3
1898 • 1 Reader • 128 pages
1926 • 1 Reader
1927 • 1 Reader • 142 pages
1903 • 1 Reader
2011 • 1 Reader
1901 • 1 Reader
1919 • 1 Reader • 138 pages • 5
1898 • 1 Reader
1919 • 1 Reader • 128 pages • 4
2010 • 60 pages
1997 • 64 pages
1894 • 341 pages
2007 • 218 pages
#2 of 6 in Dedalus Books of Decadence
1992 • 336 pages
1894 • 195 pages