Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… had levelled at him in a letter about Les liaisons 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 … that this Novel must be included among the best works of its kind, excepting however Clarisse , the most genius of all Novels; Tom Jones , the best-made Novel; and La Nouvelle Héloïse , the most beautiful of all works produced under the … by Rousseau and Crébillon, Laclos was aware of the popularity of the translations of Richardson ’s and Fielding’s novels in eighteenth-century France. For him, Clarissa was ‘the masterpiece of novels’ (Laclos 440). Abbé Prévost’s 1751 …
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