Orientalist literature
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The first French version of A Thousand and One Nights was published in 1704 by Antoine Galland. European translations followed rapidly. Authors started using the East as a way to enrich their philosophical work, and a pretext to write commentaries on the West: Montesquieu wrote the Lettres persanes, a satirical essay on the West, in 1721, and Voltaire used the Oriental appeal to write Zaïre (1732) and Candide (1759).
The publication of Bibliothèque orientale and its vulgarizations, spread the knowledge of the Orient and made possible such publications as Vathek, one of the first examples of Orientalist literature in the United Kingdom.
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Chronological list of works
- Montesquieu — Persian Letters (Lettres persanes) (1721)
- William Thomas Beckford — Vathek (1786)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Kubla Khan (published 1816)
- Thomas Moore — Lalla-Rookh (published 1817)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley — Ozymandias (1818)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson — poem Indian Superstition (1821)
- Thomas de Quincey — Malay passages in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)
- Edgar Allan Poe — Tamerlane (1827), Al Aaraaf (1829), and Israfel (1831)
- Victor Hugo - Les Orientales (1829)
- Gustave Flaubert - Salammbô (1862)
- Eça de Queiroz — The Relic (A Relíquia) (1887) and The Mandarin (O Mandarim) (1889)
- Anatole France Thaïs (1890)
- Richard Francis Burton — translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (1885–1888)
- Victor Segalen — René Leys (1922)
- André Malraux — Man's Fate (1934) (La Condition humaine, 1933)
- Marguerite Yourcenar's Nouvelles Orientales (1938)
- Marguerite Duras — The Lover (L'Amant) (1984)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Westöstlicher Diwan (1819)
- Herman Hesse — Siddhartha (1922)
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