Jacques and his master: [an homage to Diderot in three acts] [eAudiobook - hoopla]

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Jacques and his master: [an homage to Diderot in three acts]

(2013)

By: Kundera, Milan

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PUBLISHED

[United States] : Harper Collins Publishers : Made available through hoopla, 2013

EDITION

Unabridged

DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 52 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN

9780062215666 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11635110, 0062215663 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11635110

LANGUAGE

English

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Read by Simon Callow, David Timson

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining "variation" on Diderot's novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera's "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. When the "heavy Russian irrationality" fell on Czechoslovakia, Milan Kundera explains, he felt drawn to the spirit of the eighteenth century - "And it seemed to me that nowhere was it to be found more densely concentrated than in that banquet of intelligence, humor, and fantasy, Jacques le Fataliste." The upshot was this "Homage to Diderot," which has now been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Here, Jacques and His Master, newly translated by Simon Callow, is a text that will delight Kundera's admirers throughout the English-speaking world

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