Histoire de Calejava
By (author) Claude Gilbert Edited by Marc Serge Rivière
Publication date:
31 December 1990Length of book:
150 pagesPublisher
University of Exeter PressDimensions:
210x148mm6x8"
ISBN-13: 9780859893473
Depicts a group of characters in a mysterious land, but is more concerned with philosophical dialogue than exotic adventure. The characters debate the customs and thoughts of the Avaïtes, the people of the imaginary land of Calejava. An eighteenth-century work considered historically significant as it depicts ‘for the first time, a religious system which is unequivocally deistic.’ (Early Deism in France, C.J.Betts).
This is a volume in the Exeter French Texts series. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.