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 Correspondence …
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