by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070368945
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«Les Liaisons dangereuses» is the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, published by Gallimard in paperback (512 pages, in French).
The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two eighteenth-century aristocrats, exchange letters to plan conquests and deceptions as part of a libertine game. The correspondence between various characters reveals the moral hypocrisy, secret alliances, and abuses of power of French high society.
The work was originally published in 1782. This French edition belongs to Gallimard's Folio collection (no. 894) and includes a preface by André Malraux.
For readers of French classics and epistolary novels interested in eighteenth-century literature.
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782).
