That Infernal Affair

The Translator: The late J. Robert Loy, Professor and Chair of Modern Foreign Languages at Brooklyn College at his death in 1985, received his Ph.D. from Columbia and taught at several other institutions before going to Brooklyn and the Graduate Center of CUNY. A specialist in eighteenth-century French Literature, he is the author of Diderot's Determined Fatalist (1950) and a study of Montesquieu (1968) as well as many articles dealing with his period. He was also the editor and translator of Diderot's Jacques le Fataliste (1959) and of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes (1961).
The Editors: Basil Guy, Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught eighteenth-century French Literature, has published widely in the field of his specialization. His most recent book is a new translated edition of the Prince de Ligne's garden treatise, Coup d'Oeil at Beloeil (1992).
Phyllis Brooks is a retired Lecturer from the College Writing Program at the University of California at Berkeley where she taught writing in several departments. A writer, editor, and translator, her most recent book is a translation and adaptation of Isabelle Robinet's Taoism: Growth of a Religion (1997).