Denis Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew' A Multi-media Edition

In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and a...

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Main Author: Diderot, Denis (auth)
Other Authors: Hobson, Marian (auth), Tunstall, Kate E. (auth), Warman, Caroline (auth), Duc, Pascal (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2014
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