Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… an indispensable complement to it. His eclectic body of work paints the picture of a reformer, an educationalist in the Rousseauian tradition, a spare-time literary critic and an author of courtly poems, inspired by his visits to the salons. … , 1 Les Liaisons dangereuses (published in English as Dangerous Liaisons or Dangerous Connections ) was indebted to Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Richardson’s Clarissa and simultaneously marked the pinnacle and decline of a genre … dangereuses , Laclos drew attention to the instructive nature of novels and established a filiation between Richardson , Rousseau and himself. Above all he highlighted the importance of Cecilia for the model of sociability that he …
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