" Literature allows you to escape not only your home or your country, but also your era, your social condition, and even your age or gender. "
Alain Supiot
In 1721, Montesquieu's epistolary novel Lettres persanes painted a critical portrait of his times. Under the guise of a factitious foreign viewpoint, he already manifested the spirit of the laws that would occupy him so much a few years later.
Alain Supiot, a lawyer, extends the swirling gesture of correspondence by sending a few letters to the philosopher. Taking a relentless look at our present, he uncovers the secret chains that link us to this masterful exercise in inverted anthropology.
Supiot A., Présentation de l'édition du tricentenaire des Lettres persanes de Montesquieu, Paris, Points/Seuil, coll. " Points Classiques ", 2021, p. 9-35.
ISBN : 978-2-7578-9198-8
Available at :7 October 2021
