Jacques the fatalist and his master.

Description

"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.

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Series Statement

• Classic Collier books, BS62

Other Editions

• Jacques the fatalist and his master.Collier Books1962-01-01
• Jacques le fataliste et son maîtrePortes de France1946-01-01
• Jacques the fatalist and his masterNew York University Press1959-01-01
• Jacques the fatalist and his masterNew York University Press1959-01-01
• Jacques the fatalist and his master.New York University Press1959-01-01
• Jacques le fataliste et son maîtreLe Livre de poche1965-01-01