Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, NY, 1985
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.The Wild Muse
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Harper & Row, 1985, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 90pp. Paperback original. Slight bump/curl, else fine. "A highly original variation on Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot's novel Jacques le Fataliste, Jacques and His Master has been successfully staged all over the world. This new translation by Simon Callow has been authorized by Kundera as the definitive edition.".
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- Title
- Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts
- Author
- Kundera, Milan
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, NY
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060912227
- ISBN 13
- 9780060912222
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo
- Seller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions, Performing Arts
Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining play by Milan Kundera, the acclaimed Franco-Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
A highly original variation on Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot's novel Jacques le Fataliste, Jacques and His Master has been successfully staged all over the world. This new translation by Simon Callow has been authorized by Kundera as the definitive edition.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
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