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Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître by Denis Diderot; préface et commentaires de Marie-Thérèse Ligot is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître about?

"Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything? Where are Jacques and his Master going? Are they simply occupying space, living mechanically until they die, believing erroneously that they are in charge of their Destiny? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do, and behaves like a provocative, ironic, and unfailingly entertaining master of revels which finally show why Fate is not to be equated with doom." "In the introduction to this new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of action which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental."--Jacket.

Author

Denis Diderot; préface et commentaires de Marie-Thérèse Ligot

Publisher

Paris: Presses Pocket

Published

1989

Language

FR

ISBN

9782266030748

Rating

3.85 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14