Jacques and His Master is a play written in 1971 by Milan Kundera, with the subtitle "An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts".
[1] Kundera's work is a variation on Denis Diderot's late 18th-century novel Jacques the Fatalist.
The men swap tales of their past romantic misadventures and those scenes are performed for the audience.
[6] The play is set in the eighteenth century, like Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist, however Kundera deliberately leaves the historical aspects of time and place as ambiguous: Just as the play's language is not a reconstruction of the language of another time, nor should the historical character of the set and costumes be insisted on.
[This quote needs a citation] The play examines the issues of authorship and the nature of artistic creation through the dialogue between the two principal characters and their rendering of their own histories.