Choderlos de Laclos

INTRODUCTION Les Liaisons Dangereuses was first published in Paris in 1782. Society regarded the event as an outrage. The first edition sold out within a few days and subsequent editions were rapidly exhausted. All Paris read and discussed the book. We hear, inevitably, of how young ladies...

PRÉFACE D'ANDRÉ MALRAUX Les Liaisons sont le récit d'une intrigue. {Comme par hasard, ce mot désigne a la fois l'organisation des faits dans un ouvrage de fiction, et un ensemble efficace et orienté de tromperies.) Intriguer tend toujours a « faire ^.oire » quelque chose a quelqu'un;...

PRUFACl] TO DANGEROUS ACQUAINTANCES BY AlVDB^ GIDE JFhat a tremendous hook! Tackling it afresh., as I have just done, the first thing I realise is how vivid and detailed are my recollections of my first reading of it, forty years ago?- At the same time I am more than ever convinced of the...

Részlet a könyvből: TRISTAN ÉS ISEUT (Xll-ik század.) A szerelem és a halál egyik legősibb meséje: borús kelta mítoszból udvari regénnyé terebélyesedve a középkor nem egy híres énekmondóját inspirálja, Chrétien de Troyes-t éppúgy, mint Gottfried von Strassbourgot,...

INTRODUCTIONLes Liaisons Dangereuses was first published in Paris in 1782. Society regarded the event as an outrage. The first edition sold out within a few days and subsequent editions were rapidly exhausted.All Paris read and discussed the book. We hear, inevitably, of how young ladies would...