Persian messages

The Persian messages are an creative human work, not only considered as a multi-narrator novel, but also as a symbol difficult to classify that coincides with the emergence of the Enlightenment movement. Montesquieu presented himself as one of the pioneers of his era in free expression and condemning injustice and absolute judgment, through depicting an integrated scene filled with satire of all social, religious, and political phenomena in a professional philosophical framework, mastering the literature of letters and travels, escaping the idea of censorship by publishing his novel in its first edition under an anonymous name in Amsterdam in 1721. The artistic dimension of the novel is embodied through the merging of imagination with reality with an orientalist flavor, between love and death, injustice and stolen rebellion, the dominant Eastern feminine presence in its various manifestations and deceptive Western appearances, between pleasures and absolute closure, a contradictory space for freedom and submission, seduction and virtue, with several perspectives in a carefully studied narrative style that balances documentation with imagination, enveloped by the forbidden Trinity and wrapped in philosophy. Number of pages: 448 Year of publication: 2023 Publisher: Dar Al-Rafidain for Printing, Publishing, and Distribution