Jacques the fatalist and his master
Diderot, Denis, 1713-17842008
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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? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do.
Main title:
Jacques the fatalist and his master / Denis Diderot.
Edition:
[New ed.] / translated with an introduction and notes by David Coward.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Collation:
xxxix, 258 p. ; 20 cm.
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Variant title:
Cover title: Jacques the fatalist
Notes:
This ed. of this translation originally published: 1999.Cover and spine title: Jacques the fatalist.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780199537952 (pbk)
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
3422226