Jacques and his nameless master are travelling through the French countryside on a mission that is only revealed later in the story. On the way, they recount tales to each other and the people they encounter, have various adventures in inns and meet other travellers on the road. A picaresque romp through pre-Revolutionary France, the book is at the same time an extended trick on the reader, a long shaggy dog story, in which the central narrative - the story of Jacques’s loves - is never completed: pleasure is always deferred. ...

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JACQUES THE FATALIST is like a long, but thoroughly entertaining conversation that is constantly interrupted by one revelatory digression after another.