Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393009033)

What happens on the journey? Jacques tells his master his adventures; this story in turn is constantly interrupted by other stories or by Diderot, as narrator, who comes in to tease the reader about the future course of the novel. Diderot is eager to be agreeable, so long as the reader realizes that the fabricator of a novel can as easily proceed in this way as in that. The book foreshadows a number of 19th and 20th century literary techniques, exchanging the rational and classical for shifting perspectives of time, personality, and viewpoint.

Author: Denis Diderot
ISBN-10: 0393009033
ISBN-13: 9780393009033
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1978
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.68h x 5.09w x 0.69d