Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

The world of "Jacques" is not a fixed and settled one where events are easily assessed and interpreted; on the contrary, it is a world of dizzing variety and unpredictability. For nothing is quite as it seems and an alarming proliferation of ancedotes, characters, and philosophical problems continues to spring up around the apparently central theme of the relationship between Jacques and his master, in a skilled and devastating assault on the supremacy of the stylized novel.