TY - BOOK AU - Diderot,Denis AU - Assézat,Jules TI - Jacques le fataliste et son maître AV - PQ PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fate and fatalism -- Fiction KW - Storytelling -- Fiction KW - Valets -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- 18th century KW - Free will and determinism -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_the_Fatalist Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_le_Fataliste_et_son_ma%C3%AEtre; Release date is 2012-06-12; Produced by Michael Roe, Jean-Adrien Brothier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Jacques le fataliste et son maître" by Denis Diderot is a philosophical narrative written between 1765 and 1784. A master and his servant Jacques travel together, with Jacques promising to recount his love affairs along the way. Their journey becomes a playful experiment in storytelling as the narrative constantly digresses, interrupts itself, and challenges the conventions of the novel. Through embedded tales, philosophical debates, and direct addresses to the reader, Diderot creates a complex work that questions fate, free will, and the very nature of fiction itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39976 ER -