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Denis Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew' : A Multi-media Edition by Denis Diderot; Marian Hobson; Kate E Tunstall; Caroline Warman; Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.; Open Book Publishers is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways. Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot's famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials,enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the

Author

Denis Diderot; Marian Hobson; Kate E Tunstall; Caroline Warman; Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.; Open Book Publishers

Publisher

Open Book Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783740116

Subjects

Music, History, Philosophy