STERNE LAURENCE

ΑΙΣΘΗΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΤΑΞΙΔΙ
Η λέξη «αισθηματικός» ήταν μια λέξη της μόδας στο Λονδίνο της εποχής εκείνης, με αποτέλεσμα η χρήση της να φτανεί σε άκρα, όπως «αισθηματικό» γεύμα ή «αισθηματικός» περίπατος. Και ο Στερν, υιοθετώντας την, θέλησε να την κοροϊδέψει, όπως έκανε και σε τόσα άλλα, μόνο που, και σ’ αυτήν την περίπτωση, κατέληξε και πάλι να κυριολεκτήσει. Γιατί δεν πρόκειται για ταξιδιωτικό ημερολόγιο, ούτε ακριβώς για μυθιστόρημα, παρόλο που συνδυάζει στοιχεία και από τα δύο είδη. Ο Στερν, παίζοντας για άλλη μια φορά τον ρόλο του Γιόρικ, ταξιδεύει, σε μια ξαφν...
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Η ΖΩΗ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΑΠΟΨΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΡΙΣΤΡΑΜ ΣΑΝΤΙ, ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΣΟΙ
Ο Sterne, ανατρέποντας κάθε συμβατικότητα στη γραφή και τη μυθιστορία, δημιουργεί ένα σκηνικό δράσης όπου καθετί μπορεί να λάβει χώρα. Γραμμένος λίγο μετά τα μέσα του ΙΗ' αιώνα, ο "Τρίστραμ Σάντι" ξεπερνά με ιλιγγιώδη βήματα την εποχή του και φτάνει - αιώνια χαμογελαστός - στο σήμερα σαν αντίδοτο σε κάθε θλίψη. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning with Tristram's conception, the novel recounts his progress in 'this scurvy and disasterous world of ours', including his misnaming during baptism and his accidental circumcision by a falling sash-window at the age of five; unsurpr...
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(P/B) THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
'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 t...
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(P/B) A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
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 explori...
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(P/B) TRISTRAM SHANDY
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 ...
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(P/B) 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 - em...
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(P/B) TRISTRAM SHANDY
This edition of "the most modern of eighteenth-century novels" reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared from December 1759 to January 1767, including the two illustrations by Hogarth. Obvious errors have been corrected, but most of the conventions of eighteenth-century printing and all of Sterne's brilliant exploitations and expansions of those conventions have been retained. Background information includes a chronology of Sterne's life and comments from his letters pertaining to the composi...
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(H/B) TRISTRAM SHANDY
This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary scandal when it was first published on 1760. With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretense of being an autobiography, TRISTAM SHANDY fascinates like a verbal game of chess. Milan Kundera has said that it is the eighteenth-century novel he loves best. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN (ADAPTED AND ILLUSTRATED BY MARTIN ROWSON)
"For in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to his rules, nor to any man's rules that ever lived" One of English literature's most curious, complex and comic novels cleverly recreated in the distinctive, anarchic style of cartoonist Martin Rowson, Tristram travels with his faithful companion Pete through the torturous paths of the infinitely digressive world of Sterne's eccentric masterpiece. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
A Sentimental Journey is a novel without a plot, a journey without a destination. It records the adventures of the amiable Parson Yorick, as he sets off on his travels through France and Italy, relishing his encounters with all manner of men and women-particularly the pretty ones. Sterne's tale rapidly moves away from the narrative of travel to become a series of dramatic sketches, ironic incidents, philosophical musings, reminiscences, and anecdotes; sharp wit is mixed with gaiety, irony with tender feeling. With A Sentimental Journey, as...
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