Pierre Louÿs
Standard Name: Louÿs, Pierre
Used Form: Pierre Louys
Connections
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Fictionalization | Sappho | Pierre Louÿs
's Les Chansons de Bilitisposed as newly recovered autobiographical poems of Sappho
(translated from Greek), and established her as pedagogue of the lyric and of lesbian sexual practice. This appeared during the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Natalie Clifford Barney | |
Textual Production | Hannah Lynch | HL
's Academy essay Insanity in Literature distinguished two kinds: the insanity of hate, represented by nationalist, anti-Semitic writers in the wake of the Dreyfus
affair like Léon Daudet
, Maurice Barrès
, and Gyp |
Timeline
By autumn 1896: French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs, already...
Writing climate item
By autumn 1896
French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs
, already notorious for the lesbian Songs of Bilitis, 1895, printed at his own expense his best-known work, Aphrodite, about a courtesan in ancient Alexandria.
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