Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Marie-Antoinette kept a bound copy of this notorious study of sexual intrigue in her private library; and it was condemned by the criminal court forty years after its publication in 1782 and publicly incinerated. The satanic hero and heroine of this greatest of eighteenth-century novels -a pair of d...
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| Περίληψη: | Marie-Antoinette kept a bound copy of this notorious study of sexual intrigue in her private library; and it was condemned by the criminal court forty years after its publication in 1782 and publicly incinerated. The satanic hero and heroine of this greatest of eighteenth-century novels -a pair of depraved aristocrats- plot and achieve the seduction of a young convent girl with the calm detachment of mathematicians solving an algebraic formula.
Honest to the point of cynicism, this is a fascinating exposure of an aristocracy shortly to perish in the French Revolution |
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