Tristram Shandy

By:

Laurence Sterne

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Wordsworth Classics

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Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, 'Tristram Shandy' provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'. AUTHOR: Laurence Stern (1713 -1768) was an author whose work divided opinion during his lifetime and has continued to do so ever since. His most notable work, 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy' was a ground-breaking novel which experimented with new forms of narration, parodied other authors and included some bawdy humour for good measure. Dismissed as a novelty by some critics, his book has been cited as an influence on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and many others.

Release date Australia

March 5th, 1996

Author

Laurence Sterne

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Introduction and notes by Cedric Watts
Series edited by Keith Carabine

Edition

New edition

Pages

480

Series

Wordsworth Classics

Dimensions

129x198x24

ISBN-13

9781853262913

Product ID

2332034

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