Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict.

A humorous compendium of European thought and literature - pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais - emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram's conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself.

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About the author

Laurence Sterne

Summary

Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. It anticipates modernism and postmodernism.

Additional text

Sterne was the greatest impressionist of his time.

Report

Sterne was the greatest impressionist of his time. Joseph Conrad

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Sterne
• Assisted by: Alessandr Gallenzi (Editor), Alessandro Gallenzi (Editor)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.08.2017
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781847494160
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-416-0
• Pages: 608
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 20 x 3.8 cm
• Series: Evergreens; Alma Classics; Alma Classics Evergreens; Alma Classics; Evergreens
• Subjects: FICTION / Satire