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The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make "Dangerous Liaisons" (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Viscount de Valmont and the Marchioness de Merteuil - gifted, wealthy, and bored - form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game. And they play this game with such wit and style that it is impossible not to admire them, until they discover mysterious rules...
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos produced "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in an effort to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on this earth after his death." He did just that. First published in 1782 in four volumes, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" was an immediate success, and has since inspired a large number of literary commentaries, plays, and films. The novel is an epistolary piece, written as letters between...
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Love...sex...seduction. Of the three, only the last matters. Love is a meaningless word, and sex an ephemeral pleasure, but seduction is an amusing game in which victory means power and the ability to humiliate one's enemies and revel with one's friends. So it is for the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, two supremely bored aristocrats during the final years before the French Revolution. Together they concoct a wildly wicked wager:...
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Las Relaciones Peligrosas. Una pareja inmoral que jugaba con el sexo de Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
En esta novela amarga, escrita en forma de epistolario. Pierre- Ambroise- Francois Choderlos de Lacios, creo una obra que fue considerada inmoral en sus tiempos, porque en ella una pareja sin escrúpulos se divierte fomentando la seducción de inocentes. Pero la posteridad la ha rescatado de esa fama depravada para convertirla en uno de los primeros...