| #25136 in Books | Laclos, Choderlos de/ Constantine, Helen (EDT)/ Constantine, Helen (TRN) | 2007-10-30 | 2007-10-30 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | 7.75 x1.00 x5.04l,.73 | File Name: 0140449574 | 448 pages | Penguin Classics
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Translation solid, type setting is not|By nick|The type setting is too small and the horizontal length of the text is too long. It makes for difficult reading. The translation follows the original French sentence by sentence without taking any creative liberties for the sake of flow. When the language gets archaic and hard to read that is because it is also that way in the Fre||"If this book burns, it burns as only ice can burn."| -Baudelaire|From the Back Cover|The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversia
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time
Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce...
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