Volume 29, Number 9 · May 27, 1982
The Rape of the Voice
By Veronica Geng
Diva
directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, screenplay by Jean-Jacques Beineix, by Jean Van Hamme. (adapated from the novel by Delacorta)
One of the current hits in Paris is Milan Kundera's play Jacques et Son Maître, a 'variation,' as the author calls it, on Diderot's novel Jacques la Fataliste. In an introduction to the French edition of the play, Kundera describes himself as 'a hedonist trapped in a world politicized to the extreme,' and celebrates the eighteenth-century spirit that balances passion with 'reason and doubt, play and the relativity of all human things.'[2]
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