author
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
1707–1777
Best known as Crébillon fils, he brought wit, flirtation, and sharp social observation to 18th-century French fiction. His novels turn the manners of high society into something playful, sly, and often surprisingly modern.
2 Audiobooks
Le Sylphe ou, Songe de Mme de R***, écrit par elle-même à Mme de S*** by Crébillon
by Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol
by Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
About the author
Born in Paris in 1707, he was the son of the dramatist Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon and became known as Crébillon fils to distinguish himself from his father. He built his reputation as a novelist whose work captured the intrigues, conversations, and moral games of fashionable French society.
His fiction is often described as light, satirical, and libertine, mixing elegance with mischief. Works such as Le Sopha and Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit helped make him a memorable voice of 18th-century literature, especially for readers interested in the psychology of love, vanity, and social performance.
He spent most of his life in Paris and died there in 1777. Today he is remembered less for grand drama than for his clever, worldly prose and for the vivid window his writing offers into the tastes and tensions of his age.