Dangerous relation: chivalrousness and sexism through a look at the novel of Laclos

Abstract

Product of a scientific initiation research, this article part of un hermeneutic interpretation of the novel by Choderlos de Laclos (Dangerous Relations, 1971) and his filmic adaptation (Dangerous Liaisons, Stephen Frears, 1988) in search of launching a new look at the male figures of gentleman and sexist, understand them as movements that are approaching, cohabit, interpenetrate and infl uence, confi guring the chivalrousness a form of change to stay for sexism.