Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
720 Seiten
1991
Everyman's Library (Verlag)
978-1-85715-007-0 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
A mock autobiography, in which the hero wrestles with the impossibility of explaining anything without explaining everything. In the process he explores every conceivable fictional device in a brilliant display of narrative fireworks.
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.

Laurence Sterne was born in 1713, the younger son of a landowning Yorkshire family. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1738. Sterne's dramas were mostly personal, including bitter quarrels with his wife and uncle, and some high profile affairs. The publication of the first volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy in 1759 made him famous throughout Europe overnight. He went on to complete the remaining volumes over the next seven years. Sterne died in 1768 of tuberculosis, the condition that had dogged him for many years.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.9.1991
Reihe/Serie Everyman's Library ; Vol.7
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 212 mm
Gewicht 776 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 1-85715-007-4 / 1857150074
ISBN-13 978-1-85715-007-0 / 9781857150070
Zustand Neuware
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