Dangerous Liaisons
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Dangerous Liaisons
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Gabriel Woolf
About this listen
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
First published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782, the book cause scandal on its release.
The story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others,The story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade othersThe story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, uncaring of those who face social ruin or whose hearts are broken. It depicts a decadent and corrupt aristocracy exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Regime. The relevance of this grew due to the ensuing the French Revolution.
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803) was a French novelist, official and army general.
Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.
Public Domain (P)2008 RNIBListeners also enjoyed...
Really liked the way the letters are used to hide and to work parts of the plot instead of simply being a device that gives the characters a first-person voice.
Some interesting and disturbing psychological strategies are used between the main characters to goad each other and to trap and manipulate the hapless victims.
The letters are eloquent and quite amusing in a wicked sort of way, and the story is so fresh for something 233 years old. The audiobook is very well narrated by Gabriel Woolf using P.W.K Stone's very readable translation for Penguin (1961).
This recording is clear, but there are small hitches in the editing: small slips of the tongue have not been edited out, and about a paragraph of narrative is missing from 3:35:00 to 3:35:19 of letter 44 in part 1.
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What did you like best about this story?
This book is very well written, and the story is very comical in my opinion. I will say that at times it can be a bit slow (some of the love letters written to madame de Tourvel are boring)What about Gabriel Woolf’s performance did you like?
His performance is very good, but the audiobook is structured VERY poorly. It is even hard to find the beginning of the book because the preface is not in a separate section.Lovely classic, very comical
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The book caused quite a scandal in its day - in the years just before the French revolution ( I think the author had a minor role in this but cant remember the details). Narration is superb and sound quality fine for what must be quite an old recording.
I confess I preferred the movie so in all honesty could not recommend the book unless you are keen on 18th century French literature.
an interesting but very old fashioned book
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Well... in finished it..
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