Persian Letters

Baron Montesquieu, Christopher Betts

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Penguin Classics
27 May 2004

Biography: general; Diaries, letters & journals; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

A richly evocative novel of the meeting between East and West

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. As they travel, they write home to wives and eunuchs in the harem and to friends in France and elsewhere. Their colourful observations on the culture differences between West and East culture conjure up Eastern sensuality, repression and cruelty in contrast to the freer, more civilized West - but here also unworthy nobles and bishops, frivolous women of fashion and conceited people of all kinds are satirized. Storytellers as well as letter-writers, Montesquieu's Usbek and Rica are disrespectful and witty, but also serious moralists. Persian Letters was a succ s de scandale in Paris society, and encapsulates the libertarian, critical spirit of the early eighteenth century.

By: Baron Montesquieu
Translated by: Christopher Betts
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9780140442816
ISBN 10: 0140442812
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 27 May 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles-Louis de Scondat (1689 - 1755) was born into an eminent family of parliamentaires. He inherited the barony of Monesquieu in 1715 and published the Persian Letters anonymously five years later. Christopher Betts is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French STudies at the University of Warwick. He has written books and articles on eighteenth-century French fiction and thought and has translated Rousseau's Social Contract

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