TY - JOUR
TI - Polish translations of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters
AU - Matyaszewski, Paweł
TI - Polish translations of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters
AB - 
	The purpose of the present article is to show the history of Polish translations of a famous epistolary novel Persian Letters written in 1721 by Montesquieu. In his work, the author neither introduces linguistic matters of the translations, nor he analyses their correctness; however, he presents strictly historical and cultural aspects of the process of translation. What is more, the article aims at presenting the intentions of Polish translators, the historical context of their work and its importance for a Polish reader. Regardless of the era when they produced their translations, starting as early as the eighteenth century, Polish translators always saw in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters something more than a simple and light epistolary novel of the Regency era.
VL - Volume 21 (2021)
IS - Volume 21, Issue 1
PY - 2021
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 67
EP - 75
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.21.006.13674
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/les-traductions-polonaises-des-lettres-persanes-de-montesquieu
KW - Montesquieu
KW - Persian Letters
KW - Polish translations
KW - Tomasz Kajetan Węgierski
KW - Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński