The Aesthetic Reception of Saadi's Gulistan among Its French Translators

This is an academic essay or article examining aesthetic reception theory, particularly as developed by the Constance school of literary criticism, especially Hans Robert Jauss, building on Hans Georg Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy. The work focuses on how readers receive and interpret literary works over time. It discusses Saadi's Golestan as a major Persian work that entered Western literature through early seventeenth-century French translation, and notes that numerous French translations of this text have followed since then.