Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining play by Milan Kundera, the acclaimed Franco-Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting . A highly original variation on Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot’s novel Jacques le Fataliste , Jacques and His Master has been successfully staged all over the world. This new translation by Simon Callow has been authorized by Kundera as the definitive edition.