Fiction
L'Île des esclaves
Marivaux's one-act comedy, in this Flammarion edition, strands masters and servants on an island where social order can be renegotiated. Written in 1725, the play is less a utopian fantasy than a satirical experiment: power proves portable, and the reversal of roles exposes how thin the moral claims of authority really are. The French is quick, conversational, and mathematically precise in its ironies. Flammarion's paperback keeps the text clean and the notes minimal.For readers who like their Enlightenment social theory delivered as farce, with the class dynamics intact.
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