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Jacques the Fatalist

Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot Original title Jacques le fataliste et son maître (French, 1796)

Jacques the Fatalist and his Master is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765–1780. The first French edition was published posthumously in 1796, but it was known earlier in Germany, thanks to Goethe's partial translation, which appeared in 1785 and was retranslated into French in 1793, as well as Mylius's complete German version of 1792.


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“Life is but a series of misunderstandings.”

Source: Jacques the Fatalist

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