by Montesquieu · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070429349
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«Lettres Persanes» is Montesquieu's epistolary novel, in French and in paperback, edited by Jean Starobinski, 461 pages.
Two Persians, Usbek and Rica, travel through Europe and recount in letters their astonishment at eighteenth-century French society; from that foreign perspective, Montesquieu satirizes the customs, religion, politics and institutions of the West, and reflects on power, liberty and cultural diversity.
Originally published in 1721, it was Montesquieu's first work and achieved great success; the text, annotated by Jean Starobinski, belongs to the Folio classique collection.
For readers of eighteenth-century French literature, political philosophy and classics of social satire.
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.
