Tristram Shandy Contributor(s): Sterne, Laurence (Author), Watts, Cedric (Introduction by), Watts, Cedric (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 1853262919 ISBN-13: 9781853262913 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Wordsworth Classics |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.66 lbs) 480 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. 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'. |