Book, Diderot works 3 Rameau's nephew[LS]

Under the pretext or under the guise of a 'second' satire, through the dialectical game that the dialogical form allows and instigates, Diderot composed, in 'Rameau's Nephew', a masterpiece of fictional creation of the French Enlightenment, and, even more , a most comprehensive picture of society not only in the 18th century - of men and their ideas, of the play of their ambitions and frustrations in collective and personal dynamics, in the light of their maximum and minimum morality. One and the other, incarnated in the I, complete to the virtuous rigidity of his philosopher's ideas, and in the He, the talented but not genius artist, frustrated in his search for recognition, who barely disguises his envy towards those who achieve glory. in art and in life, exposing their defects, supposed or not, as the basis of their skepticism and amoralism, they outline in positive and negative the effect of critical acid which, through its precise corrosive action, reveals an engraving transcendent to its time, to its author and its heroes.