21.11
Książki
Wordsworth
Dangerous Liaisons
Choderlos de Laclos
Wydawnictwo:
Wordsworth
Oprawa: Miękka
Opis
In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent. The letters these two conspirators exchange are remarkably frank in describing how they manage to achieve their ends and, at the same time, reveal nuances of character which make it impossible to dismiss either of them as simply evil. Those written by their victims are equally revelatory in a quite different and subtle way, while the manner in which Laclos handles the epistolary form in order to ensure that his two protagonists are finally defeated, not by outside forces, but the fissures in their own relationship, is a triumph of narrative skill. This novel poses shrewd questions about the relation between love and sex, and suggests that, in certain sections of eighteenth century French high society, idleness, boredom and wealth had created individuals whose misfortunes it would be hard to regret when, only seven years after Dangerous Liaisons was published, the Revolution broke out.
Szczegóły
Rok wydania
2019
Oprawa
Miękka
Ilość stron
398
Format
13.0x20.0cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
9781840227314
Rodzaj
Książka
Stan
Nowy
EAN
9781840227314
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