Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… complement to it. His eclectic body of work paints the picture of a reformer, an educationalist in the Rousseauian tradition, a spare-time literary critic and an author of courtly poems, inspired by his visits to the salons. This work … 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 confined a small number of characters to a reduced … p. 38. The generalised shift in the novelistic universe is also reflected in the novel’s form. Prepared by the long tradition of French epistolary art as a counterpart to the art of conversation, Les liaisons dangereuses was the perfect …
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