Pursuits

Seducer Malkovich Resumes Dangerous Liaisons in Paris: Review

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Few characters in world literature are more sinister than the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont.

That hasn’t prevented readers from being fascinated by the two schemers for more than 200 years. “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 epistolary novel, has been translated into countless languages.