Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts

milan kundera

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.

Genres playsfictiondramaczech literatureclassicsliteraturetheatre20th centurynovelscomedy

98 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1971

This edition

Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1994 by HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060912222
ASIN: 0060912227
Language: English

About the author

milan kundera

Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.