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Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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birokurgunlugu's review against another edition

4.0

Bir vikont ve bir markizin işbirliği yapıp aynı ortamlara girdikleri birkaç kişinin hayatını cehenneme çevirmesinin hikayesi. Fransız romanlarının kimin eli kimin cebinde belli değil minvalinde gerçekleşen olayları bu kitapta da bol bol karşımıza çıkıyor. Aşk, sadakat, entrika, dedikodu ne ararsanız var.

Kurgunun, karakterlerin yazdığı mektuplar üzerinden ilerlemesi başta hangi karakter kimdi karmaşası yaratsa da alışmak uzun sürmüyor.

Yoğun olduğunuz dönemlerde bile kendini okutan, okurken de insanı yıpratmayacak türden güzel bir klasik.

mijtje's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Content Warnings

linaleigh's review against another edition

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3.0

Very dry, and I recall getting lost in who was who more than once. The plot is as interesting as ever, but the writing style has not fared so well.

_stephp's review against another edition

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4.0

Suite à un défi entre amis, me voilà à relire Les liaisons dangereuses 25 ans après ma première lecture, en prévision d'une soirée club de lecture.
Avis plutôt favorable donc, j'avais gardé un bon souvenir de ce livre. Référence en matière de littérature épistolaire, je me suis émerveillée au fil de ma lecture de l'ingéniosité de Laclos pour nous dévoiler son intrigue par le biais des mots des autres.
Les principaux protagonistes, la marquise de Merteuil, et le vicomte de Valmont, intriguent de concert pour assouvir leurs vengeances. Laclos décrit avec précision et cynisme la perfidie et la fausseté nécessaires pour évoluer dans le monde aristocratique du XVIIIe siècle, au cœur des mœurs libertines. Et c'est savoureux !
Pas de happy end par ici, les méchants sont finalement punis, mais les victimes aussi.

elzabetg's review

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5.0

Marquise de Merteuil: Well, I had no choice, did I? I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every thought of before. And I've succeeded because I've always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own.

Vicomte de Valmont: Yes, but what I ask was, how?

Marquise de Merteuil: When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork into the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

Vicomte de Valmont: So, you're infallible, are you?

Marquise de Merteuil: lf I want a man, I have him. lf he wants to tell, he finds that he can't. That's the whole story.