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Jacques the Fatalist (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some
of them true, others made up, written without style and served up
like a dog's breakfast.' 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 who finally show why Fate is not to
be equated with doom. In the introduction to this brilliant new
translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of
Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist
pioneers techniques of fiction which, two centuries on, novelists
still regard as experimental. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
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