Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Peirre Choderlos de Laclos , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Love . . . sex . . . seduction. Of the three, only the last matters. Love is a meaningless word, and sex an ephemeral pleasure, but seduction is an amusing game in which victory means power and the ability to humiliate one’s enemies and revel with one’s friends. So it is for the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, two supremely bored aristocrats during the final years before the French Revolution. Together they concoct a wildly wicked wager: If Valmont can successfully seduce the virtuous wife of a government official, Madame de Tourvel, then Madame Merteuil will sleep with him again. But Madame Merteuil also wants Valmont to conquer the young and innocent former convent schoolgirl, Cécile Volanges. Can he do both?
When Les Liaisons Dangereuses was first published in 1782, it both scandalized and titillated the aristocracy it was aimed against, who publicly denounced it and privately devoured it. Today we still recognize its relevance, for what could be more contemporary than its appalling image of everyday evil small, selfish, manipulative, and mean. Alfred Mac Adam, Professor at Barnard CollegeColumbia University, teaches Latin American and comparative literature. He is a translator of Latin American fiction and writes extensively on art.
肖德洛·德·拉克洛(Choderlos de Laclos, 1741-1803),法国作家,生于索姆省亚眠市。1780年7月至1781年9月,他构思创作了《危险的关系》,出版后即刻风行一时,引起巨大的社会反响,在作者生前至少印了五十版,但在十九世纪,此书却被法院以“内容淫猥、有伤风化”为由多次列为禁书,作者也因此声名不彰。直到二十世纪中后期,保尔·布尔热对他的揄扬以及波德莱尔有关这部小说的笔记的出版,尤其是二战以后,纪德、马尔罗、吉罗杜、莫罗亚、罗歇·瓦扬、布托尔等作家都对他给予高度评价,恢复了他在文学史上的崇高地位,此书最终取代了卢梭的《新爱洛伊丝》,成为法国文学史上一部不朽的名著。拉克洛成了法国大学课程上规定研读的作家,人们发现他的作品还能十分顺利地经过改编转换到别的传播媒介上。所有这些经改编的影片和剧作不可能百分之百地传达出拉克洛原作的精髓和微妙之处。但应该看到,拉克洛的作品经过屡次加工改造,却总能剪裁得适合流行的时尚潮流的口味。
看到了很多人性的丑恶,他们的淫荡生活,卑鄙的手段,那些被人戏弄,欺骗的人,都是些利用可怜,天真,单纯的人,有学习认识到骗子的手段,骗子的心理,情真意切的感受到她们的心情,越看心情越糟,真的,像我本人这种感受很强的人,其实看这种书有点难受的,这本书真的很适合...
评分这也许是我近半年来读到的最完美的小说。它让我注意到社会风气和小说家的个性会对小说产生怎样的影响,在十八世纪,英国小说和法国小说多么不同!亨利·菲尔丁的《汤姆·琼斯》在毛姆眼里是直白大胆的作品,但在我看来,仍然无法摆脱绅士风度所要求的那种谈吐;而奥斯丁...
评分看到了很多人性的丑恶,他们的淫荡生活,卑鄙的手段,那些被人戏弄,欺骗的人,都是些利用可怜,天真,单纯的人,有学习认识到骗子的手段,骗子的心理,情真意切的感受到她们的心情,越看心情越糟,真的,像我本人这种感受很强的人,其实看这种书有点难受的,这本书真的很适合...
评分看到了很多人性的丑恶,他们的淫荡生活,卑鄙的手段,那些被人戏弄,欺骗的人,都是些利用可怜,天真,单纯的人,有学习认识到骗子的手段,骗子的心理,情真意切的感受到她们的心情,越看心情越糟,真的,像我本人这种感受很强的人,其实看这种书有点难受的,这本书真的很适合...
评分第一次读这本当年发行不久便被列入”禁书“的《危险的关系》时,总觉得它差不多可以当做”法国版的《金瓶梅》“或者”法国版的《三言二拍》“这样去定位,因为,在本书主要信件里,德·瓦尔蒙子爵和德·梅尔特伊侯爵夫人之间交谈的内容,绝大部分都跟获得对猎物的占有权有关...