Dangerous liaisons choderlos de laclos pdf

Want to Read saving…. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms. The force of Jean-Honore is that he never was vulgar. The epistolary form is so frightfully dull. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. By the time Valmont has succeeded in seducing Madame de Tourvel, he seems to have fallen in love with her.

The novel is so tightly wrapped, dabgerous self-referential, that I doubt I will find an An absolutely magnificent novel! This should have been edited out. View all 22 comments. It really showed how well they understood everything, and only rendered it more afflicting that they should use their talents to torment others.

Internet URLs are the best. An excellent reflection of the multitude of selves we all hold. Laclos was considered almost as scandalous a writer as his contemporary the Marquis de Sade, who wrote books that were openly mocking what he considered to be the naive Rousseau-ist optimism pedeled by the philosophers of the day.

This stream of melodramatic back-and-forth plot-explaining missives lacked any real narrative drive for me, as bitchily funny as the two corrupt lovers were on occasion. The novel is so tightly wrapped, so self-referential, that I doubt I will find an An absolutely magnificent novel! Q About Contact Donate. Thank you to my reading buddy Regine for not giving up on me and Laclos. It is flowery and vague at times but I find it strangely different, thus interesting, compared the standard style of our contemporary novelists.

Swap it for free. A corrosive novel, which has lost none of its strength, the Dangerous Liaisons is a remarkable work that effectively reflects the spirit of the eighteenth century de Sade, once the only Rousseau ; the end, however, appears neglected and his moralism seems granted by the author to the well-thinking society of the time. Dangerous Liaisons is a novel presented in epistolary form, entirely composed of one hundred and seventy five letters.

Some interesting and disturbing psychological strategies are used between the main characters to goad each other and to trap and manipulate the hapless victims. View all 13 comments. Work in other languages Dangerous Liaisons in Russian. We think it incumbent on us to acquaint the Public, notwithstanding the title of this work, and what the Compiler asserts in his preface, that we do not pledge ourselves for the authenticity of this Collection, and that we have even very forcible reasons to believe it a fiction.

Nay, that the author, who seems studiously to have sought nature, has himself awkwardly defeated his intention, by the epocha in which he has placed his events. Hot Vernon God Little by D. Pierre by D.

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