Le flou et le précis des réécritures contemporaines : Les Liaisons dangereuses à l’épreuve des réseaux sociaux
Vagueness and Precision of Contemporary Rewritings: Les Liaisons dangereuses put to the Test by Social Networks

Summary/Abstract: Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos is one of the best-known and most imitated novels in French literature. Despite the great number of adaptations and rewritings that have appeared since the second half of the 20th century, these continue to be made, assimilating the world of the libertines into that of teenagers. This study looks at the novel transposition from a film script, published in 2022 by Rachel Suissa and Wendy Thévin, under the same title Les Liaisons dangereuses. The paper analyses the way in which Laclos’s novel is adapted to the age of social networks and shows how the strategies of modernisation oscillate between “vagueness” and “precision”, considering the narrative technique, the libertine theme and the intertextual relationship between the rewriting and the original novel.

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