Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… Les liaisons dangereuses , which was based on Richardson’s Clarissa , was his ‘unique book’. More radical than its English model, it called into question a whole sociability that had descended into libertinism. The work simultaneously marked the pinnacle and dissolution of the epistolary novel, the symbol of sociable exchange. People > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Correspondence … a masterstroke. Described by Baudelaire as a ‘terrifying book of sociability’ , 1 Les Liaisons dangereuses (published in English as Dangerous Liaisons or Dangerous Connections ) was indebted to Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Richardson’s …
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