Jacques the fatalist and his master

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Jacques the fatalist and his master
Denis Diderot
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"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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Jacques le Fataliste et son maître
September 12, 1999, Pocket
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Jacques the fatalist and his master
1999, Oxford University Press
in English
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Jacques le Fataliste et son maître
January 27, 1997, Seuil, EDL
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Jacques le fataliste et son maître
1995, Marabout
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Jacques le fataliste et son maître
1989, Presses Pocket
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Jacques le Fataliste et son maître: extraits
1986, Bordas
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Jacques the fatalist and his master
1986, Penguin Books
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Jacques the fatalist and his master
1978, Norton
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Jacques the fatalist and his master
Publish date unknown, N.Y. University press
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