by Montesquieu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743431815
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«Lettres persanes» is Montesquieu's epistolary novel, in a French-language paperback edition, with 285 pages.
Usbek and Rica, two Persian travellers, write letters to each other as they travel through Europe; their impressions of the court, fashions and beliefs of eighteenth-century France form an intelligent satire of Western society and institutions.
The work was originally published in 1721 and is usually placed in eighteenth-century French literature, with political and philosophical readings.
It will appeal to readers of eighteenth-century French literature and to those who enjoy political and social satire in the form of an epistolary novel.
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.
