Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Denis Diderot
- First Published: 1796
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: c. the 1750’s to the 1760’s
- Setting: Rural France
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Philosophical realism, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Love or romance, Eighteenth century, Storytelling, Servants, Adventure, Fate or fatalism
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
The narrator, who presents the conversations that compose the book. No description of him is provided. He frequently interrupts his characters to interject comments about the relationship between fiction and reality. He emphasizes the “made-up” character of his work, often changing from one story to another before the first has been completed. He combines authentic references to contemporary events with unexplained and bizarre jumps in chronology. He sometimes mentions other novelists, including Miguel de Cervantes and Samuel Richardson.
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