Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… politically active alongside Philippe d’Orléans and participated in the debates of his time through his writing. His epistolary Les liaisons dangereuses , which was based on Richardson’s Clarissa , was his ‘unique book’. More radical than … sociability 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 Mots-clés … critic and 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 …
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