Abstract When Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos’s Liaisons dangereuses first appeared in late March 1782, it was an immediate succès de scandale. Laclos’s focus on his characters’ libertine psychology and his creation of a “monstrous” female villain, Merteuil, distinguished the novel from mainstream eighteenth-century French works. As an analysis of the novel’s reception demonstrates, Laclos’s suggestive portrayal of female sexuality and empowerment—and, specifically, of Merteuil—led first to the text’s association with dangerous works known as “mauvais livres” or “livres philosophiques” such as the Marquis de Sade’s Justine (1791) and the anonymous Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier de Chartreux (1741), and later contributed to its classification as a pornographic work at the time the concept was invented in the early nineteenth century—and, ultimately, to its censorship in 1823. If the novel was devoid of explicitly sexual scenes, it nonetheless elicited such images in the minds of (at least some of) its readers and thereby caught the attention of the authorities. Les Liaisons dangereuses may be one of the most prominent historical cases of a book being banned not for what was depicted in its pages, but for the fantasies it inspired—providing a compelling twist to the adage that “pornography is in the eyes of the beholder,” or the mind of the reader.

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Le Danger des liaisons：审查 Laclos 的联络人危险

摘要 1782 年 3 月下旬，皮埃尔-安布罗瓦斯-弗朗索瓦·乔德洛斯·德·拉克洛斯 (Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos) 的《危险联络人》首次出现时，立即引起了一场丑闻。拉克洛斯对人物放荡心理的关注以及他对“怪物”女恶棍默特伊的创作，使这部小说与 18 世纪法国主流作品区分开来。正如对小说接受度的分析所表明的那样，拉克洛斯对女性性欲和赋权——尤其是对默特伊——的暗示性描绘首先导致了文本与被称为“mauvais livres”或“livres philosophiques”的危险作品的联系，例如侯爵Sade 的 Justine (1791) 和匿名的 Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier de Chartreux (1741)，并且后来在 19 世纪早期这个概念被发明时将其归类为色情作品，并最终在 1823 年对其进行审查。如果小说没有明确的性场景，它仍然在（至少部分）读者的想法，从而引起了当局的注意。Les Liaisons riskeuses 可能是历史上最著名的一本书被禁的案例之一，不是因为书页上描绘的内容，而是因为它激发了幻想——这为“色情在旁观者眼中”这句格言提供了令人信服的转折，”或读者的想法。尽管如此，它在（至少一些）读者的脑海中引起了这样的形象，从而引起了当局的注意。Les Liaisons riskeuses 可能是历史上最著名的一本书被禁的案例之一，不是因为书页上描绘的内容，而是因为它激发了幻想——这为“色情在旁观者眼中”这句格言提供了令人信服的转折，”或读者的想法。尽管如此，它在（至少一些）读者的脑海中引起了这样的形象，从而引起了当局的注意。Les Liaisons riskeuses 可能是历史上最著名的一本书被禁的案例之一，不是因为书页上描绘的内容，而是因为它激发了幻想——这为“色情在旁观者眼中”这句格言提供了令人信服的转折，”或读者的想法。