Les Lettres persanes, the first major work by Montesquieu, caused a stir in 1721. Often underestimated but today unanimously admired, his “kind of novel” is the subject of twelve new critical readings by specialists of both the author and the eighteenth-century novel.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques