Resumen de Le chronotope de la route et l'enchaâssement de récits dans "Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître"
The road chronotope or the theme of journey that becomes in Jacques the Fatalist, the frame-narrative within which several secondary narratives are embedded, can be recognized from the very first lines, since the questions and answers in the incipit set in relation the theme of journey whose purpose is not stated and the principle of pleasure.The theme of journey enables Diderot to insert a series of reported speech sequences within the body of the main dialogue, or simply to imagine, within a single narrative sequence, a complex dialogue integrating several fragments of reported speech.In Jacques the Fatalist, Diderot embraces the Romanesque tradition initiated by Boccacio in his 1352 Decameron, which is made up of several secondary narratives. Due to this aesthetics of embedded narratives, Diderot's text proves to be dynamic and authentic at the same time.
