Dangerous LiaisonsPierre De Laclos
Dangerous Liaisons
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…Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel. Funny and a real feast of words (the translation is a work of art in itself) Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain. Haunting and moving Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons. Scandalous, gripping. Ivan Turgenev - First Love. A masterclass in writing. Short, sensitive and exquisitely told. Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time. Exceptionally rich and a beautiful study of…
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗Actually I've read (part) of his memoirs[0]. Worths a read. Similar to "Dangerous Liaisons" from Laclos - without the literary value. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20504101-the-memoirs-of-... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326768.Dangerous_Liaison...
on “Why Casanova Continues to Seduce Us” ↗…the culture has deteriorated and I believe that, today, the image makers really do live in the "the matrix" they've created and have trouble distinguishing it from reality. (I think of how Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons really fell for his victim Madame de Tourvel.) My contacts with local business people and people who sell ads for radio and newspapers have convinced me that prices for advertising were too high for…
on “Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?” ↗…different issues but the subplot of every argument was their sexual attraction to each other. Another example would be the relationship between the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons.
on “Google, Eric Berne circled friends first” ↗