Jacques and his Master: A Play

Written by Milan Kundera

Narrated by Simon Callow

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining 'variation' on Diderot's novel Jacques le Fataliste, written for Milan Kundera's 'private pleasure' in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

When the 'heavy Russian irrationality' fell on Czechoslovakia he felt drawn to the spirit of the eighteenth century - "And it seemed to me that nowhere was it to be found more densely concentrated than in that banquet of intelligence, humour and fantasy, Jacques le Fataliste."

This translation by Simon Callow has delighted Kundera's admirers throughout the English-speaking world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Release date: Jul 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9780571308651

Milan Kundera

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His later novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Reviews for Jacques and his Master

[MitraSalehi · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Read first Jacques the Fatalist and his Master from Denis Diderot and then you would enjoy this play