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'.
| ISBN | 1853262919 | | Pages | 480 | | ISBN13 | 9781853262913
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 288 | | Publisher | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | | Published in | Herts | | Imprint | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | | Series title | Wordsworth Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 23 Oct 1995 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.6 | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | General |
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