L'erreur des désirs

First edition, rare.
Contemporary blonde polished calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title-label. One tiny lack at foot. One corner bumped. Traces of rubbing. Handsome copy.
Bookplate of O.P. Laurentii.
A novel in which two great novelistic tendencies of the 18th century intersect: the libertine novel and the sentimental novel. For the author, what is proper to man is not enjoyment but the dissatisfaction of desire which drives him to always desire, the only solution to this drama being resolvable only through love, which would be the possible path of an alternative to the dissatisfaction of desire.