Tristram Shandy Tristram Shandy

Tristram Shandy

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Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, ‘Tristram Shandy’ caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalized with bawdy descriptions and rambling prose. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon, Rabelais and Jonathan Swift, clergyman Lawrence Sterne manages to both eloquently champion the literary and scientific views of the day, and to satirize those same idols in the next outrageous breath.

The questionable ‘hero’ and narrator of the novel, the eponymous Tristram Shandy, attempts to tell the reader his life story, but as he digresses ever further on everything from sexual practices, the importance of a name, obstetrics, linguistics, weaponry and philosophy, the reader quickly learns that the path won’t be a linear one, and gets wrapped up in the author’s exuberance and wit – as Tristram’s ill-fated conception and birth don’t even enter the story until Volume III. Encompassing a humorously memorable cast of misfits, including his eccentric father Walter, obsessive Uncle Toby, accident-prone mother Susannah, pastor Yorick, and a gaggle of other characters, Tristram Shandy’s restless energy and modern-seeming wit explain why Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Schopenhauer, Michael Winterbottom, and Michael Nyman count among its numerous fans.

About the author

Laurence Sterne (1713–68) was born and spent his early childhood in Ireland, before moving to England, where he studied at Cambridge and became a clergyman. The work for which he is most famous, ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’, is acknowledged as one of the most significant mileposts in the early development of the novel form.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
13 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
640
Pages
PUBLISHER
William Collins
SELLER
HarperCollins Australia Pty Limited
SIZE
4.3
MB

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