Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… work took up one of the major themes explored in Laclos’s work, namely the pitfalls that await a young woman entering society without an education and without adequate knowledge of the dangers that she might be exposed to. Implicitly … and instruction to a genre that was to consolidate its status. Its aim above all was to provide a window onto a society that was being corroded from within. The epistolary exchange, a symbol of sociability, became the libertines’ … A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society ), which used its form to advantage more than any other work, appears to be the tool that disintegrated the …
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