Download or read book Narrative Structure and Philosophical Debates in Tristram Shandy and Jacques Le Fataliste written by Margaux Whiskin and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final pages of Jacques le fataliste the narrator draws a connection between Diderot's novel and Sterne's Tristram Shandy through an ambiguous accusation of plagiarism, making it unclear as to which text is the original and which author is the plagiarist. Margaux Whiskin compares both novels and explores Diderot's motives in suggesting that his novel might be a plagiarised version of Sterne's.