Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 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 Cosmopolitanism Fiction France … in 1782, Les liaisons dangereuses pertained to the climate of an entire era that stressed the importance of sociable exchange while remaining mindful of its perils. The novel’s succès de scandale, which was fuelled by indignation at the … of a plot whose intelligence ends up conquering even the readers themselves. Through a particular use of the epistolary exchange, Laclos constructed a closed system, a societal microcosm that contrasts with the complexity and depth of the …
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