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Le libertinage est aussi une manipulation
The Licentiousness is also a manipulation

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Author(s): Petruța Spânu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: manipulation; libertine; victim; rivalry; letter; calculating

Summary/Abstract: The manipulation is the skillful influence (upon a group or an individual) tomake him think and act as one wishes (Petit Robert); it implies a dishonestmaneuver. The Eighteenth-Century libertine manipulates his victims that hewants to compromise. In the case of the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses(Dangerous Liaisons, 1782), the vicount of Valmont manipulates her bestaccomplice, the marchioness of Merteuil, and leaves himself unwittinglymanipulated by her

  • Issue Year: 10/2009
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 33-39
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French
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