Full name: Jacques the Fatalist and his Master

Author: Denis Diderot Year: 1785 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Philosophy, Humor Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140444728 0140444726

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. Similar books: Candide by Voltaire The Nun by Denis Diderot The Stranger by Albert Camus The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Fall by Albert Camus Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre Life by Georges Perec The First Man by Albert Camus Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera The Immoralist by Andre Gide Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau Identity by Milan Kundera The Misanthrope by Moliere Slowness by Milan Kundera A Happy Death by Albert Camus Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert Juliette by Marquis de Sade The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce Clouds by Aristophanes