Like the author, Jacques is a discursive talker and a fatalist. Recounting the story of his amorous adventures to his master as they travel from inn to inn, Jacques is continually interrupted by the interference of events, chance encounters, conversational digressions—which, together with the thread of the main story, serve to expound Diderot’s central thesis of fatalism. (French, 2 hours)

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