How are Asians depicted in The World As It Goes by Voltaire?

In The World As It Goes, Voltaire presents the travels of Babouc, who, as indicated in the subtitle, records his vision. This work is often referred to as Babouc. As the work is a satire, Voltaire’s renderings of Asians depend largely on stereotypes, from which he selects qualities that he believes resonate with the features of Europeans that he is critiquing. In representing a fantasy world in which stock characters behave in predictable ways, Voltaire participates in what Edward Said later called Orientalism. The book’s central premise is that Babouc is sent by the angel Ituriel to Persepolis (contemporary Tehran) to evaluate its destruction for sinful behavior. Much like in Voltaire’s more well known work Candide, the hero finds himself embroiled in a variety of complicated situations and is often duped by cheats and liars. Persepolis is generally taken to represent the author’s own Paris, and the characters to stand in for prominent French people. Overall, Babouc’s impressions of the Persians he encounters are varied, and his conclusion fits well within cultural relativism. He is enchanted by a lovely young woman, whose virtues do much to improve his opinion. He concludes that they should be spared because many people are polite and sweet, despite their faults of superficiality and vanity.
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