This author’s work Paradox on the Comedian inspired the term “staircase wit” for when one thinks of a witty comeback too late. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novelist of Rameau’s (“rahm-OWE’s”) Nephew, who co-edited the Encyclopédie (“on-see-cloh-PAY-dee”) with Jean le Rond d’Alembert (“zhahn luh rohn DAHL-om-bair”).
ANSWER: Denis Diderot (“DEE-duh-roh”)
[10h] In a Diderot novel, the valet Jacques tells his master about this philosophy, which he illustrates by recounting the death of his brother in a real-life earthquake.
ANSWER: fatalism [or fatalist philosophy; or fatalisme or fataliste; accept Jacques the Fatalist and his Master or Jacques le fataliste et son maître]
[10e] Other 18th-century French novels that philosophically interpreted that earthquake include this Voltaire novel, in which Dr. Pangloss tells the title character to look at the earthquake optimistically.
ANSWER: Candide [or Candide ou, l’Optimisme]
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