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100 1 $aDiderot, Denis,$d1713-1784.
240 10 $aJacques le fataliste et son maître.$lEnglish
245 10 $aJacques the fatalist and his master /$cDenis Diderot ; translated with an introduction and notes by David Coward.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1999.
300 $axxxix, 258 p. ;$c20 cm.
490 1 $aOxford world's classics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258).
520 1 $a"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.
655 7 $aSatire.$2lcsh
655 7 $aExperimental fiction.$2lcsh
650 0 $aFree will and determinism$vFiction.
650 0 $aFate and fatalism$vFiction.
655 0 $aSatire.
655 0 $aExperimental fiction.
700 1 $aCoward, David.
700 1 $aCoward, David,$etranslator.
830 0 $aOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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