Denis Diderot 1 hr 35 min read

A fanciful 'blue tale' of enchantment and Oriental fairy-tale wonder, spun with sly wit by a great Enlightenment philosophe.

Denis Diderot's 'The White Bird,' written around 1748, is a playful fairy tale in the licentious, ironic vein of his 'Bijoux indiscrets.' Witty, elegant, mischievous. Read it for a charming and sly conte from one of the Enlightenment's boldest minds, in French.

In its time

Published in 1748, during the Pre-1800, voyages to the moon, subterranean worlds, and philosophical utopias, the deep roots of the imaginative tradition, from kepler and cyrano to the enlightenment.

Reading it

1 hr 35 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).