Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… that had descended into 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 … an author of courtly poems, inspired by his visits to the salons. This work was all eclipsed, however, by his epistolary novel, which ensured his name would be preserved for posterity as the author of a book that just happened to be a … a review of Frances Burney ’s Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress in the Mercure de France in which he made a plea for the novel as a portrait of ‘private morals’ that was charged with ‘[o]bserving, feeling and portraying’ in order to provide …
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