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# Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    so I can't imagine what it was like for people reading it then
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2017*

The Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil are both focused on getting their pleasure wherever they can get them.I couldn't believe this book was written in 1780s as I felt scandalized reading it now, so I can't imagine what it was like for people reading it then!  It took a bit to get to know the characters, but once they were all straightened out in my mind I really enjoyed the story.  And once you have the personalities ingrained, as a reader you really get to enjoy the satire present in every one of the letters.  The only reason I gave a 4 instead of 5 stars as the ending was a bit lame.  It was to tidy as all those who were naughty got 'justice', which I found to be a bit cliche.  Still, this is a classic that I am extremely happy I took the time to read.  I would highly recommend.  I promise you won't be bored.

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    Bad translation; I am not sure there is a good translation out there.
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019*

This translation is terrible. It completely misses the tone of the original. It transforms the elegant prose of the 19th century to 21st century common speak.Thomas Moore made a translation as well. That translation is inaccurate. It translates harp into harpsichord and takes a huge amount of liberties.Not that this translation is accurate. This translation also takes a huge amount of liberties.

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    "I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
  

*by T***L on Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2009*

That is one of Oscar Wilde's many famous quotes, and if it was true, then Oscar would have been delighted to meet the main characters of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. I certainly was.The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont are wicked, possibly evil, and yet (and this can be attributed to Laclos's literary genius) they will probably become the characters you end up rooting for. Laclos, during his life, continued to insist that this novel was written for instructional purposes, a sort of this-could-happen-to-you type thing, but I'm not so easily fooled. Laclos, throughout the story, points out which characters are good and upstanding or plainly innocent (Tourvel, Rosemonde, Volanges) but he really wants you to hate these characters, and he uses the subtle language in their letters to achieve this. On the other hand, he makes the 'bad' characters (Valmont, Merteuil) more charming using the same technique. In other words, I believe that Laclos was trying to test his readers' principles. You know that what the Vicomte and the Marquise are doing is wrong... but you can't help wanting them to succeed and get away with it. You are bending your own morals because--while their victims are annoying and gullible--you find them to be witty, clever, and charming. And these are just fictional characters. What would happen if you met such people in real life?, Laclos seems to be asking.Clever though they may be, Valmont and Merteuil eventually reach a point in their twisted game where they cannot control it, and though they were once unholy allies, they become sworn enemies out of spite. They have already ruined so many other people, and now the time has come to ruin each other. [SPOILER WARNING] However, Merteuil, probably the more wicked of the two, gets away with her life, which is more than can be said for Valmont. There is even a note in the back of the book which suggests that she even overcame her deformities (caused by smallpox) and continued her way of life in Amsterdam. [END SPOILERS] They are not the only ones to suffer. Their victims are all brought down by their scheme, in different ways and in varying degrees of disaster. Again, Laclos uses his deceptive writing skill to make it seem like these characters deserved their fates because of their stupidity or naivete, without actually saying this at all. The reader ends up feeling worse for Valmont and Merteuil, who undoubtedly deserved their punishments. It is almost impossible to describe what Laclos has done in a review. You must read the actual novel in order to feel the sheer genius in it, the way he conveys meaning between the lines, without actually writing anything out to that effect. It really is like nothing I've ever seen before.If I could give this masterpiece more than five stars, I would. This is the art of literature at its finest, and Laclos will have you under his spell the whole way through.

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