Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… he took up writing as an indispensable 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 … 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 revisiting the … social codes and behaviour. The young Cécile becomes a pleasure machine in Valmont’s arms, a victim of a poor convent education and the blindness of a mother confined to reproducing outdated educational models. The Presidente de Tourvel, …
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