The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

New, Joan; Sterne, Laurence; New, Melvyn

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9780140435054: The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140435050 ISBN 13: 9780140435054

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1997

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A novel about writing a novel in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. No one description will fit this strange, eccentric endlessly complex masterpiece. 'Nothing odd will do long,' said DrJohnson; 'Tristram Shandy did not last.' But Tristram Shandy has lasted in the century of Joyce, Rushdie and Fuentes, perhaps even more than in the eighteenth.

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"A lot of nonsense is written about Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" -- and that's just as well. It would be depressing in the extreme if this triumphant tangling up of the threads of reason with the strands of linear narrative were to admit of any effective unravelling; which is as much to say, that were you to find yourself picking apart a lucid, non-discursive exposition of the novel - its themes, its techniques, its plot -- you would know that you had finally gone mad." -- Will Self

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Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.

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