»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
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