author
Pétrus Borel
1809–1859
A wild, rebellious voice of French Romanticism, he left behind feverish tales and poems that shocked many of his contemporaries. Nicknamed "the Lycanthrope," he became a cult figure for readers drawn to the strange, the gothic, and the fiercely anti-bourgeois.
2 Audiobooks
Champavert: contes immoraux
by Pétrus Borel
Madame Putiphar, vol 1 e 2
by Pétrus Borel
About the author
Born in Lyon in 1809, Pétrus Borel was trained as an architect before turning fully to literature. In Paris he became linked with the younger, more unruly edge of the Romantic movement, and his eccentric public persona helped make him one of its most memorable outsiders.
He wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and was especially known for a dark, extravagant style that pushed Romanticism toward the bizarre and grotesque. His best-known work is often cited as Champavert, contes immoraux, and his self-fashioned nickname, "le Lycanthrope," captures the fierce, defiant energy that runs through both his life and writing.
Although he never became as famous as some of his contemporaries, Borel has remained an influential cult author. Later readers have been drawn to his intensity, his taste for the macabre, and the way his work seems to anticipate later decadent and surrealist moods.