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Jacques and His Expert is a deliciously witty and amusing "deviation" on Diderot's book Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera's "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. When the "heavy Russian irrationality" dropped on Czechoslovakia, Milan Kundera explains, he felt attracted to the soul of the eighteenth century - "And it appeared to me that nowhere was it to be found more densely concentrated than for the reason that banquet of intellect, humor, and fantasy, Jacques le Fataliste." The upshot was this "Homage to Diderot," which has now been performed throughout the United States and European countries. Here, Jacques and His Expert, newly translated by Simon Callow, is a text that will joy Kundera's admirers throughout the English-speaking world.
