Milan Kundera

Jacques and His Master Milan Kundera

This is the Chinese translated version of Jacques and his Master: A Homage to Diderot in Three Acts, a play written by Milan Kundera. The play follows two men, Jacques and his master, as they go on a journey that remains unexplained for the whole play. They tell stories to each other to pass the time and along the way the scenes from their respective pasts are performed for the audience. The play is set in the eighteenth century, like Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist, however Kundera deliberately leaves the historical aspects of time and place as ambiguous.