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S'està carregant… Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics) (1796 original; edició 2009)de Denis Diderot (Autor), David Coward (Traductor)
Informació de l'obraJacques el fatalista i el seu amo de Denis Diderot (Author) (1796)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This book is such a joy! It's really difficult to describe what it is about: Jacques and his master are going somewhere and they have some adventures, but it doesn't really matter - this book could have no plot at all and it would still be wonderful. There are lots of fun stories, lots of discussions about life, God and philosophy, the book is still really fresh, entertaining and original, although it was written so many years ago. Definitely five stars. ( ) ¿Cómo se conocieron? Por casualidad, como todo el mundo. ¿Cómo se llamaban? ¿Qué os importa? ¿De dónde venían? Del lugar más cercano. ¿Adónde iban? ¿Sabemos acaso adónde vamos? ¿Qué decían? El amo no decía nada; y Jacques decía que su capitán decía que todo cuanto de bueno y de malo nos acontece aquí abajo, escrito estaba allí arriba. 'And your Jacques is only an insipid agglomeration of facts, some real, some imagined, written without grace and distributed about with no order.' Philosophical comedy. Its almost stream-of-consciousness writing the author often breaking the fourth wall. Most of it are these philosophical musings interrupted by various stories. The tales themselves are often broken up and interwoven, so at times even the characters telling them get confused as to where the stories left off. Whenever i started to get bored there would be some funny moment or interesting idea thrown out. However i still might be rounding up to get to 3 stars. There were some genuinely funny parts, some of the conversations seemed like a Marx Bros sketch at times. Edit: I seriously doubt that this translation by J. Robert Loy, is the best version. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.'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 theydie, 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.In the introduction to this brilliant new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of fiction which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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