A 600-page "shaggy dog" story that manages to be about everything and nothing at the same time. It is exhausting, hilarious, and arguably the most influential "experimental" novel ever written. 1. The "Plot" (Or Lack Thereof)
Mimicking the frantic, stuttering pace of real thought. 3. The Comedy of Frustration
An entirely ink-filled page to mourn a character’s death. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne.epub
The heart of the book lies in the "hobby-horses"—the obsessive fixations—of the Shandy household.
If you expect a standard biography, prepare to be trolled. Tristram, our narrator, attempts to tell his life story but is so distracted by context—his father’s eccentric theories, his Uncle Toby’s obsession with military fortifications, and the very physics of how he was conceived—that he doesn't even manage to get himself born until several volumes into the book. 2. Sterne’s Narrative Anarchy A 600-page "shaggy dog" story that manages to
Perhaps literature’s most lovable eccentric, a soldier who recreates battles in his bowling green because he cannot express his emotions through words.
Representing the "motley emblem" of his work. Missing Chapters: Which he later "inserts" out of order. The "Plot" (Or Lack Thereof) Mimicking the frantic,
Sterne invented the "Stream of Consciousness" long before the 20th-century modernists. He treats the page like a playground. You’ll find: