Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… by masquerading as honest people. His in-depth knowledge of French and English sensibilities prompted him to express some reservation on this point. The following comment reveals the differences between the two: ‘truth be told, we … to have lost its connection with reality. 8 . Michel Delon, P.-A- Choderlos de Laclos. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986), p. 38. The generalised shift in the novelistic universe is also reflected in the … the juxtaposition of the publisher’s notice and the preface set an edifying tone, but Laclos’s radicalism would have impressed on the reader that this model of sociability was now outdated. Unlike the English libertinism portrayed by …
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