The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict.A humorous compendium of European thought and literature - pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais - emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram's conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sa…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84749-416-0
- EAN: 9781847494160
- Produktnummer: 17460581
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D4.1 cm 491 g
- Gewicht: 491
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Laurence Sterne (1713-68) was an Irish-born Anglican minister. He is most famous for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
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