Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
Paperback
(Wordsworth Editions Ltd Oct. 5, 1999)
, New edition
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex 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 .
- Series
- Wordsworth Classics
- ISBN
- / 9781853262913
- Pages
- 480
- Weight
- 10.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 1.1 in.
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