Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 9 The epistolary novel no longer aspired to provide authenticity 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 …
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