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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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"Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It's also one of the first great experimental literary works" (Independent)
"A mad, recursive, literary joke" (Daily Telegraph)
"An extraordinary comic tour de force" (Guardian)
"The ultimate novel about writing a novel" (Sunday Telegraph)
"An amazing book, seeming like a modern experimental novel but written in the 18th century by an Anglican clergyman. You can dip in and out of it with constant pleasure." (Bamber Gasgoigne Daily Express)
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"A mad, recursive, literary joke" (Daily Telegraph)
"An extraordinary comic tour de force" (Guardian)
"The ultimate novel about writing a novel" (Sunday Telegraph)
"An amazing book, seeming like a modern experimental novel but written in the 18th century by an Anglican clergyman. You can dip in and out of it with constant pleasure." (Bamber Gasgoigne Daily Express)
Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.
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- PublisherEveryman's Library USA
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0679405607
- ISBN 13 9780679405603
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This bawdy, high-spirited novelwhose author, Laurence Sterne, was described by Diderot as the Rabelais of the Englishprovoked a literary scandal when its first two volumes were published in 1759. A masterpiece of narrative absurdity, ribald humor, and philosophical playfulness, Tristram Shandy is famously studded with witty metafictional gambitschapters out of order, blank and blacked-out pages, a preface that occurs in the middle of the bookthat prefigured postmodernism by two centuries. Tristram Shandy, the hero of this fictional autobiography, purports to narrate the story of his life, but along the way he engages in so many colorful digressions and exuberant jokes that his birth does not even occur until Volume III. In the meantime, we meet an unforgettable supporting cast of charactersincluding Shandys father and mother, his uncle Toby, the servant Trim, Dr. Slop, and Parson Yorickwhose whimsical obsessions, domestic conflicts, and disastrous mishaps form the fabric of this genre-defying tour de force. With its lively exploration of both the logical limitations and the wildest possibilities of fiction, Tristram Shandy has earned its reputation as one of the greatest comic novels in English literature.(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed). With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretense of being an autobiography, Tristram Shandy fascinates like a verbal game of chess. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679405603
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