Jacques le fataliste et son maître by Denis Diderot
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"Jacques le fataliste et son maître" by Denis Diderot is a philosophical narrative written between 1765 and 1784. A master and his servant Jacques travel together, with Jacques promising to recount his love affairs along the way. Their journey becomes a playful experiment in storytelling as the narrative constantly digresses, interrupts itself, and challenges the conventions of the novel. Through embedded tales, philosophical debates, and direct addresses to the reader, Diderot creates
a complex work that questions fate, free will, and the very nature of fiction itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Assézat, Jules, 1832-1876 |
| Title | Jacques le fataliste et son maître |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_the_Fatalist Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_le_Fataliste_et_son_ma%C3%AEtre |
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Produced by Michael Roe, Jean-Adrien Brothier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Fate and fatalism -- Fiction |
| Subject | Storytelling -- Fiction |
| Subject | Valets -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction -- 18th century |
| Subject | Free will and determinism -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 39976 |
| Release Date | Jun 12, 2012 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 601 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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