Les liaisons dangereuses

Réf. 57021

€ 120.00

LACLOS (Choderlos de) illustrated by Maurice BERTY

Paris - Nilsson - 1930.

Format : In-8.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Connected.
Collation : 243 pp.

Half-cardboard red velvet binding with amateur corners. Author's piece and title bordeaux. Publisher's cover retained. Beautiful fresh paper. 6 superb illustrations pasted in colour by Maurice BERTY. Tired blankets and backs with wetness and freckles on flat surfaces. Interior intact.

"This major literary work of the eighteenth century, which narrates the perverse duet of two manipulative, wily and libertine nobles of the Age of Enlightenment, is considered a masterpiece of French literature, although it fell into near oblivion during most of the nineteenth century, before being rediscovered in the early twentieth. A novel inscribed in the tradition of the libertine morality illustrated by Crébillon fils, a novel of psychological analysis in the tradition of La Nouvelle Héloïse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it brings the epistolary form to a degree of perfection: no element is free, each epistolary has its own style and the polyphony of the cross-correspondences builds a four-stage drama with a morally ambiguous outcome, which continues to fascinate the reader and to provoke numerous adaptations".

In good condition.