Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Tome 2

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Météore dans la carrière de leur auteur, Les Liaisons dangereuses fascinent par leur virtuosité, le roman par lettres autorisant un jeu permanent de miroir et de présence-absence, de l’auteur comme des personnages. La marquise de Merteuil et le vicomte de Valmont, les deux célèbres stratèges du libertinage, n’y séduisent pas seulement des jeunes gens naïfs, qu’ils entraînent à leur perte. Ils séduisent aussi le lecteur en laissant deviner, sous le masque du cynisme, le visage de l’amour vrai.

258 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.

A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Nicolas-Edme Rétif. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goals, with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangereuses . It is one of the masterpieces of novelistic literature of the 18th century, which explores the amorous intrigues of the aristocracy. It has inspired a large number of critical and analytic commentaries, plays, and films.

Cyrillic profile: Шодерло дьо Лакло

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

*deep breath*

BITCH I LIVED!!!!!!

(i first picked up this book in 2017 for the first year of my undergrad, and despite being my favourite of the set french texts it was the only one I didn't finish because it's so bloody long... Finally, having restarted it at the beginning of this year and taking on a tactic of trying to at least keep up with the dates of the letters in the novel as they went through the year, I finally read the whole of Liaisons dangereuses

It's a great book, I really recommend, but if you recognise any part of the vicomte and the marquise's interactions from a past relationship - oops - then you should feel very glad you're not longer together lol. Santé to that!)

[Olivia Regis · Rating 2 out of 5]

No me gustó. La obra está incompleta y hay muchas cosas que no terminé de entender.

[Andràș-Florin Răducanu · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Legăturile primejdioase I" (10-12 decembrie/344p)
"Legăturile primejdioase II" (12-15 decembrie/312p)
de Laclos

Apreciez enorm această telenovelă de secol XVIII. A fost una dintre cele mai bune scrieri de la care mă așteptam să mă omoare.

Nota: 10.