by Charles Secondat, Barón de Montesquieu · Club internacional del libro · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474614190
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«Cartas persas» is the epistolary novel by Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, in hardback (278 pages), published by Club Internacional del Libro.
Through the exchange of letters between Usbek and Rica, two Persians travelling through France, Montesquieu contrasts the foreign gaze with eighteenth-century French society. The work satirises customs, politics, religion and abuses of its time with irony.
Spanish translation by José Marchena. 1994 edition in the collection «Grandes genios de la literatura universal». The work was originally published in 1721.
It can be read as a classic of social satire and Enlightenment thought, both for personal interest and in school and university settings.
