Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics) |
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Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
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Pages: 448 (Paperback)
Editor: Helen Constantine
ISBN: 0140449574
Pub: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 2007-02-22
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15826
Reader Reviews:
An Immoral Tale (0/0 people found this helpful)
Penguin here give us a new translation of Dangerous Liasions that is very good. M Laclos apparently said that he wanted to write a book that would stand out and cause a stir after he was dead. I suspect that he didn't expect people to be avidly reading it over 200 years later and still enjoying it.
What Laclos gives us is a story in the epistolary form of what happens when people are rich and titled and have become bored, looking for new ways to entertain themsleves; much as the Marquis de Sade wrote about. Two people a man and a woman, go about taking people's virginity, causing a stir and scandal amongst others, in an attempt to outdo each other. Of course things don't always run smoothly between these two people, with disastrous results.
Although this book was written in the eighteenth century it still carries a resonance in todays world. There are people out there who take advantage of others and play games like those in this book, with no idea or care of the trouble they cause, and that is why this book has remained so popular. Laclos did more than write a book of his times but did something special, he wrote a book for all times.
Be warned this book will shock you and make you laugh, due to its darkly black humour, but you will not be able to stop yourself from reading it cover to cover, and re-reading it again and again. This a definite must have for any bookcase.
EXQUISITE (0/0 people found this helpful)
ESSENTIAL FOR A DESERT ISLAND- SEXUAL POLITICS AR THEIR MOST INTRIGUING-LECLOS GETS DOWN AND DIRTY ALL ENCOMPASSED IN DECOUROUS LETTERS AND MESSAGES-FASCINATING-LOVED IT
Excellent (3/10 people found this helpful)
Excellent performance. It really gets you hooked. The music intermezzos are well chosen and add to the building of the climax of the story.
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