TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sterne,Laurence
TI  - The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
T2  - Wordsworth classics
SN  - 9781853262913 (pbk.)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ware
PB  - Wordsworth Editions
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Infants
KW  - Fetus
KW  - Stream of consciousness fiction
KW  - Experimental fiction
KW  - Classics
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Classic fiction
KW  - thema
N1  - Reprint with a new introd. First published: 1996; "Complete and unabridged"--P. [4] of cover; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - The first novel by Sterne, "Tristram Shandy" illuminates the incongruous behaviour of the individuals who live at Shandy Hall and their neighbours. A novel that has no beginning, middle or end, it is made up of a mass of inconsequential reminiscences, musings, and often hilarious digressions; 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'
ER  -