Intimate, Intrusive and Triumphant: Readers in the 'Liaisons dangereuses'
Peter V. Jr. Conroy
In both the real and the symbolic sense, the action of the Liaisons is writing letters, which is to say, giving the phrase an ontological twist, that writing is its own subject. Letters in an epistolary novel recount and reenact simultaneously, without distinction. Doing and telling are congruent,… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 23] 1987. xi, 139 pp.