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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 sash window,
in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language
itself.
La escritura de Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), nacido en lrlanda,
brota de la corriente que abrieron Rabelais y Cervantes, y que
habria de llegar hasta Joyce. Tristram Shandy es una pieza clave en
la formacion de la novela moderna, en la que el lector descubre con
asombro como la veta subversiva que alienta la narracion desborda
los limites de la peripecia para contaminar las mismas convenciones
del genero. La autorreferencia, la paradoja y el subjetivismo se
alian con la explotacion de los recursos tipograficos para crear,
ademas, una de las novelas mas divertidas de la literatura inglesa.
In annotated texts based on those of the acclaimed Florida Edition
of The Works of Laurence Sterne , this edition features the two
works Sterne produced in the final year of his illness-plagued
life: the witty, bawdy, pathetic, and thoughtful A Sentimental
Journey through France and Italy ; and Continuation of the
Bramine's Journal , Sterne's correspondence to a
twenty-two-year-old married Englishwoman living in India ("a
Diary," as he put it, "of the miserable feelings of a person
separated from a Lady for whose Society he languish'd"). Together,
these mutually illuminating works offer rich insight into their
author's hopes, fears, loves, longings, and philosophy as he
prepared to face death and judgment. Excerpts from related texts
provide context for understanding the title works in relation to
the earlier writings and life of this exuberant yet subtle genius
of eighteenth-century English literature.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first London edition
(1759) of Sterne's revolutionary and influential novel. * Textual
notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley. *
Three illustrations. * The Author on the Novel, fourteen
judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarly edition. * A
wide range of early responses that demonstrate Tristram Shandy's
changing reception from its publication through the nineteenth
century. * Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new
to this edition. * A Chronology of Laurence Sterne's life and work
and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12
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‘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. 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 of the novel. THE FLORIDA EDITION
Sterne's Sentimental Journey is a novel without a plot and a journey without a destination. Here, Sterne records the adventures of the amiable Parson Yorick, as sets off on his travels through France and Italy, relishing his encounters with all manner of men and women, particularly the pretty ones. The tale rapidly moves away from the narrative of travel to become a series of pathetic and ironic incidents, dramatic sketches, philosophical musings, and anecdotes. Here, sharp wit is mixed with gaiety, irony with tender feeling forging a truly original style and establishing Sterne as the first of the stream-of-consciousness writers.
'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'
One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new
clothbound edition 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
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without
love.'
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of
sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted
its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism
that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France
and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to
appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne
satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of
ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned
as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other
writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability
of desire and feeling.
This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr
Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The
Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes
for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the
satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for
Sterne's literary career.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
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globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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