Jacques el Fatalista

Heiress to the Cervantine tradition and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Jacques the Fatalist is one of the great works of the French Enlightenment and a dazzling novel, in which the succession of adventures, often of rugged hilarity and resounding, and the caustic dialogues of its protagonists -a servant and his master traveling aimlessly- portray men and the world relentlessly and extraordinarily brilliantly. As Raül Garrigassait and Marina Garcés show in the texts that accompany the splendid translation of this edition, Jacques the Fatalist is a classic that will continue to seduce today's readers, just as it fascinated the great writer Milan Kundera.