Denis Diderot, Wicked Philanthrope: A Translation of Est-il bon? Est-il mechant? - Tapa blanda

Diderot, the most profoundly unsettling and yet compassionate writer of the 18th century, speaks a lively, thoroughly American English at last! What is more, Brogyanyi has made this very private, very subtle and seductive comedy into a fully stageworthy text. -- Jack Undank, Rutgers University QUOTE JOURNAL: Diderot, the most profoundly unsettling and yet compassionate writer of the 18th century, speaks a lively, thoroughly American English at last! What is more, Brogyanyi has made this very private, very subtle and seductive comedy into a fully stageworthy text. -- Jack Undank, Rutgers University QUOTE JOURNAL:

An accurate and interesting translation of Diderot's last play, Is He Good or Is He Bad?, a comedy which traces the humorous misadventures of Hardouin, a Parisian man of letters.