Sterne Laurence : Tristram Shandy (Sc) (Signet classics) - Softcover

Sterne, Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451518683 ISBN 13: 9780451518682

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, 1987

Synopsis

No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations. This Penguin Classic contains Christopher Ricks's introductory essay, itself a classic of English literary criticism, together with a new introduction on the recent critical history and influence of Tristram Shandy by Melvyn New. The text and notes are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, making the scholarship of the Florida editors readily available for the first time.

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Review:

"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

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0451518683
• ISBN 13: 9780451518682
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback