Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… mindful of its perils. The novel’s succès de scandale, which was fuelled by indignation at the potential models represented by the two libertines at the plot’s centre (the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil), was based … Janvier-Février 2003), p. 18-33. While Les liaisons dangereuses embraced the rule of conduct and novelistic model presented by Rousseau and Crébillon, Laclos was aware of the popularity of the translations of Richardson ’s and … Laclos constructed a closed system, a societal microcosm that contrasts with the complexity and depth of the world represented in Clarissa . Inheriting the French classical tradition, which spans from Madame de La Fayette to Crébillon, he …
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