by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070364756
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«Lettres persanes» is the epistolary novel by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, published by Gallimard in paperback (480 pages, in French).
Through the letters of Usbek and Rica, two Persian nobles traveling through France, Montesquieu contrasts the foreign gaze with eighteenth-century French customs. The correspondence satirizes the politics, religion and morality of the era and becomes a critical reflection on French society.
Lettres persanes was originally published in 1721. This Gallimard edition presents the complete text and a preface by Jean Starobinski.
For readers of French classics, political philosophy and social satire, with an interest in eighteenth-century literature in its original language.
