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Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. But as their intrigues become more duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than Merteuil and Valmont could have guessed.

A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time

Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.

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。