Is “Dangerous Liaisons” a Book about Boredom?
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2017.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Would evoking the theme of boredom in a work such as Dangerous Liaisons ( Les Liaisons dangereuses) by Choderlos de Laclos, amount to a deliberately provocative approach or, still more crudely, a blatant literary oxymoron? And what if, in this book, which is a sort of “novel of manners” in the Enlightenment era, the round of love-affairs was no more than a smokescreen aimed at obfuscating the real intrigue, namely, the struggle of sentimental libertinism against a sense of boredom born of social idleness whose culmination would be called: Terror?
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Would evoking the theme of boredom in a work such as Dangerous Liaisons ( Les Liaisons dangereuses) by Choderlos de Laclos, amount to a deliberately provocative approach or, still more crudely, a blatant literary oxymoron? And what if, in this book, which is a sort of “novel of manners” in the Enlightenment era, the round of love-affairs was no more than a smokescreen aimed at obfuscating the real intrigue, namely, the struggle of sentimental libertinism against a sense of boredom born of social idleness whose culmination would be called: Terror?
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