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Jacques and His Master: A Play - Milan Kundera

Jacques and His Master: A Play - Milan Kundera

Brand: Harper Perennial   |   Status: Còn hàng
330.000₫

"Milan Kundera always called himself a novelist. He makes a fine distinction between writers and novelists. He thinks that his poems and his play (this play) are a peripheral part of his work. However, this work is important for Kundera. It is a variation of one of his most favourite novels: Diderot's "Jacques Le Fatalist". Kundera admires 18th century novel and this is one of its most finest examples. First American performance of this play was directed by Susan Sontag. Also, it is interesting that the preface for this play spured the famous polemics on Dostoyevsky between Kundera and Joseph Brodski." - Amazon Customer Reviews

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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.