Binding: Paperback
Description: L - d! said my mother what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind I ever heard Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern novel. Part novel part digression its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero Tristram Shandy the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby and a host of other characters including Dr Slop Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition. The book that I would never tire of Sterne was about 250 years ahead of his time Roy Porter author of Enlightenment: Britain And The Creation Of The Modern World
Title: The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Gentleman
Author(s): Sterne Laurence, Melvyn New
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439778
Pages: 784 Pages
Publication Date: 5/27/2003
Category: Classic Fiction