L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman épistolaire de Laclos. • Le résumé et les repères pour la lecture sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles : – La classification des personnages – Les Liaisons et le genre épistolaire – Un roman scandaleux – Le sens de l’œuvre : une œuvre morale ? • Ce Profil d’une œuvre comprend également trois lectures analytiques : – un extrait de la lettre 1 ; – un extrait de la lettre 81 ; – un extrait de la lettre 124.
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.
A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Nicolas-Edme Rétif. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goals, with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangereuses . It is one of the masterpieces of novelistic literature of the 18th century, which explores the amorous intrigues of the aristocracy. It has inspired a large number of critical and analytic commentaries, plays, and films.