"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
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literary-to 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 deTourvel, then Madame Merteuil will
sleep with him again. But Madame Merteuil also wants Valmont to
conquer the young and innocent former convent schoolgirl, Cecile
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 College-Columbia University, teaches Latin American and
comparative literature. He is a translator of Latin American
fiction and writes extensively on art.
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