Fiction
Lettres persanes
A French-language edition of Montesquieu's 1721 epistolary novel, in which two Persian travelers write home about Paris, religion, and the fragility of empires. The book is often claimed as the first Persian novel written by a Frenchman, which is one way of saying it invents an outside perspective from which to examine a society that thought itself central. This edition presents the text in French, without the apparatus of a critical edition, in the compact format that European paperbacks favor.Ideal reader: the reader whose French is good enough for irony, or the student who wants to see the Enlightenment practicing anthropology before anthropology had a name.
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