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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'.

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ISBN: 9781853262913
Publication date: 5th March 1996
Author: Laurence Sterne, Professor Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex) Watts
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 480 pages
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Genres: Classics