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After all is said and done and prayed for and captured, there is still a lot of inner processing left in the aftermath to do. This photo smacked me hard — harder than all the rest. Now isn't that a mind full. How many things happen to all of us that knock our. In the drawing below by the writer himself , he explains his narrative course in the first four volumes, swearing by us that the fifth would be finer - but would you take his word for it?

Not only because it was a lot of fun, but also because it felt close to home as it seemed like the way my grandmother tells her stories: By digressing so much, Tristram is merely following his train of thought, without making any effort to order those ideas for his reader's convenience. Isn't that a simpler version of the stream of consciouness technique so hailed in the next centuries?

While the former device follows wherever the narrator mind takes him, but still describing the events in a logical order, the latter strips more layers and simply exposes the very thought in a loose manner. I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also While I was reading the book I lamented that it was impossible to be filmed.

Turns out it wasn't. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is one of those books I had heard about but never planned to actually read any time soon. Luckily, I was tempted by a group read and found a copy of a rare Portuguese translation it's been out of print in Brazil for years at the last minute. It's now absolutely one of my favorites: View all 46 comments. The last word I will allow to Sterne: Therefore, my dear friend and companion reader , if you should think me somewhat sparing of my narrative on my first setting out,bear with me,and let me go on, and tell my story my own way: View all comments.

Sep 27, Paul Bryant rated it liked it Shelves: I would like to dedicate the following old review to a much missed GR friend, Bird Brian, who appears as a character in my review. He provided us with many hours of free entertainment with his great rants against every possible aspect of capitalism and the American government. And now he is not here to excoriate all the bad people and discover all the conspiraci I would like to dedicate the following old review to a much missed GR friend, Bird Brian, who appears as a character in my review.

And now he is not here to excoriate all the bad people and discover all the conspiracies. Welcome to "Just A Minute!

Thank you, thank you, hello, my name is Nicholas Parsons. And as the Minute Waltz fades away once more it is my pleasure to welcome our many listeners, not only in this country but throughout the world. But also to welcome to the show this week four highly talented and individual players of this game. And once again they're going to show their invention, their verbal dexterity and their creative ingenuity as they speak on a subject that I give them for one minute, and they try and do that without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Please welcome all four of them! Tell us something about that Manny, without hesitation, repetition or deviation starting now. And Bird Brian has challenged. What is your challenge? Ironically, given that Tristram Shandy is the epitome of deviation and digression, we here are supposed to discuss it without ourselves digressing — if I remember rightly it has been filmed as A Cock and Bull Story which was directed by Michael Winterbottom who also did Welcome to Sarajevo — BUZZ!

And Paul Bryant has challenged. But what is your challenge? Dullness is allowed in this panel game. Well… he deviated by going on about Sarajevo. I could see he was just trying to drag politics into it again. So Brian you have a point for an incorrect challenge and you continue with Tristram Shandy with 22 seconds left. You have to keep going in this game, loquacity is the thing.

So Ian you have 21 seconds left with Tristram Shandy. This has got to be one of the most brilliant, funniest and — Buzz! Er — who challenged there? He could be talking about anything , how would we know. Audience — can you understand Ian Graye? So Ian that was a wrong challenge, you have a point and the subject is back with you, 19 seconds left for Tristram Shandy. Here is a novel that parodies many of the cliches of later novelists before they became — Buzz!

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So, another point for another wrong challenge and you have the subject back, Ian, 13 seconds starting now. When I was — Buzz! A very clever challenge! So you get a point for that and the subject back with you, 11 seconds for Tristram Shandy. The full title is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which gives Lawrence Sterne ample leeway to throw a in lot of rabbiting about anything. I relish my deviant status. Be that as it may, the subject is back with Manny and there are only three seconds left starting now.

And the sound of the whistle beautifully blown by our producer Samantha indicates the end of that — strenuous — round. Manny gets a point for speaking as the whistle went, and I can now reveal that the situation is that he is our joint leader with Ian, Bird Brian is next, and Paul Bryant yet to score. View all 56 comments. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in , and seven others following over the next seven years vols. Apr 12, Vit Babenco rated it it was amazing.

So many great discoveries were made absolutely unintentionally… Christopher Columbus was sailing to India and unexpectedly discovered America without any slightest suspicions. Laurence Sterne was writing some obscure petty biography and unawares discovered postmodernism. But the most weird and paradoxical thing about it is that he discovered postmodernism long before the modernists managed to discover modernism.

It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a mat So many great discoveries were made absolutely unintentionally… Christopher Columbus was sailing to India and unexpectedly discovered America without any slightest suspicions. It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage, — not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air — but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad.

And at that he was a clergyman. Strange are your deeds, Oh Lord.

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But the most important thing is that God dictated to Laurence Sterne a universal postmodern rule: View all 4 comments. Aug 10, Nathan "N. So much for the 18th century. Lockhart, and Lauren Myracle. The foregoing list -- which belongs to Mr Steven Moore and was originally published in his The Novel: An Alternative History, -- shall, in the near future, be incarnated yet again in the form of a Listopia list, curtesy of Friend Aubrey.

View all 22 comments. J'adore big books full of absurdity and digressions and allusions. Looking into the black night after emerging with a book from my mother's womb, I dreamt of THIS book among the stars. Sterne's Tristam existed for me before I read it. It was like a song whose tune you hum in your head for years, before identifying the tune with an actual song. Hell, even Karl Marx loved this book. It just isn't one of those books you really escape from. I keep digressing back into the novel because you keep recognizing the novel in other novels and movies and people.

Sterne was postModern before postModern was cool. Reading Tristram Shandy is like discovering that someone in the 18th century had already built a working computer, but that all it did was spit out a long sequence of digressions. Anyway, my wife informed me that she loved just watching me read so this is now a voyeur review Sterne because I would spit, giggle, choke, and squirm every page. I would wiggle and twist as Sterne would allude to the classics and twist the logic and satirize everyone from Robert Burton to Jonathan Swift to William Warburton.

I can't say this novel isn't appreciated. Those who have read it get it, but it isn't appreciated enough. I imagine it will be like discovering Frank Zappa in years. A future me will be looking at old YouTube videos and will think GOD why didn't more people appreciate him? View all 38 comments. Dedication This was a re-read of a novel that I first read when I was about 14 and that has stayed fresh in my mind ever since.

I was amused to learn from Steven Moore that one John Carr rushed out a fake version of Dedication This was a re-read of a novel that I first read when I was about 14 and that has stayed fresh in my mind ever since. Long live homage and fan fiction! Like a slippery slide, the hardest part is getting on; the rest is all downhill. This is only partly true.

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The assessment assumes that there is a path from which the author departs. If a line can be said to be the shortest distance between two points, Sterne never really sets out to get from A to B, or to do it efficiently or quickly. He simply sits down to tell his story his way, as if we readers were sitting across from him at a pub or smoking our pipes in front of a fireplace. He simply asks that we let him get on and tell his story his own way. Left to his own devices, he is individualistic and unconventional, and so is his novel.

What is most appealing is the methodology Sterne uses to convert them into a plot. For me, the most interesting aspects of the novel are the self-referential discussions of the writing of the novel and the relationship between author, work and reader. These aspects are pure metafiction, and you could argue that no author has bettered them, before or after. The Beauty of the Line or the Line of Beauty The prevailing view of a narrative in a traditional realistic novel is linear. In the interests of efficiency and speed i.

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A straight line has a mathematical and a scientific significance. However, it also has a moral, creative and social significance.

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A straight line does not deviate to the left or the right. Christians say it is the right path or the path of the righteous. If the line is vertical, it is upright or virtuous. If something falls from its top to its bottom, it experiences a divine gravitational force. By extension, the righteous feel gravitas. Etymologically, all of these words are related: The physical qualities morph into the moral and from there via recht into the legal.

Just as the right-handed ostracise the left-handed, the straight ostracise the bent, the crooked, the digressive and the divergent. He never sets out to follow the straight and narrow. His goal, so long as his neck remains flexible, is to follow his nose and his gaze, wherever they might lead him. And where he goes, so does his tale.

The Life of Beauty Sterne takes a straight line and bends or curves it. However, it seems that we need at least intuition to experience and enjoy the best that the world has to offer: Love and lust and amours in which the reader longs for uncle Toby to get his oats consist of thrusts and parries, just as much as any military battle. Fortifications and defences are broken down. The point is to be aligned, if not vertically, at least horizontally. Equally, the process of writing and reading follows some of the rules of attraction and love, at least to the extent that it depends on good communication and the sharing of the creative burdens between the two participants: Sonny Boy Williamson - "Help Me" https: Christelle Berthon - "Help Me" https: View all 32 comments.

Hence this fuller review, dashed off in a few minutes, or tens or twenties or thirties of minutes. By whom would this danger be faced? By I the writer? Or by you the reader? And what danger would need confrontation? The danger of boredom? The danger of falling off a chair? Perhaps, to cut to the chase and make once again a reference to Stern himself, by obliquely referring to one of his favorite sources of quotations, the danger of melancholy!? We shall perhaps return to these sharp questions. I can't quite up this to a 5 since - well, of course I could, and perhaps should.

However, a problem here arises, for I have in effect crossed out as well the very phrase which appears in bold as the first few words of this modest paragraph. I can't quite up this to a 5 since for that "very phrase" referred to in the previous sentence. Anyway … It is a very impressive piece of literature, and extremely funny in many, many parts. At that point I bought a used copy of the Oxford World's Classics edition, which in the number and arcane references of its notes made me think of Joyce's Ulysses. I can aver that that piece of narrative seems quite apposite to a review, hence find no inclination to strike it from the increased illumination cast on it in the presence of this enlarged review.

By this time, I think I've wrapped all loose ends of this review around each other, tangled into an impenetrable knot, such that readers will gratefully escape further comments, unless they already have escaped - in which case they and I are equally in the dark about my ultimate motives. View all 9 comments. Feb 18, Algernon rated it it was amazing Shelves: Hindsight is a beaut!

I should have written separate reviews for each of the original nine Shandy volumes, since I just spend about two days just trying to put some order into my multitudinous notes and now I have enough material and food for thought for at least nine reviews. This book is a glorious, licentious, philosophical mess designed right from the start in a labyrinthine manner by one of the brightest and sharpest wits of our literary pantheon. I thought, when I first noticed the glowing Hindsight is a beaut! I thought, when I first noticed the glowing reviews of my friends, that they were using hyperbole when they claimed this to be one of the very first post-modernist, experimental novels, but it quickly became apparent that they were right: What was less obvious, and became clear only with the help of the plentiful Penguin footnotes, is how much Laurence Sterne is not an accidental genius, but very much a man of his times and a canny magpie who has little remorse in lifting the best ideas, characters and even wholesale paragraphs from the works of his contemporaries and forerunners.

Rabelais is a primary source, as is Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", but there are numerous references and 'borrowings' from Swift, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Locke and the Greek or Roman classics. Sterne's achievement is not only to integrate all these disparate sources into his discourse, but to provide a critical, pertinent commentary on the salient points and on the shortcomings of each.

Also worth noting is Sterne love for the English language, the playful anarchy of his pleonasms, archaism and nonce words. Probably, had I been forced to read this in highschool, I would have hated it with a vengeance. It's dense, it has no plot it takes three volumes for the main character to be born , you need a heavy dictionary close at hand and Sterne's phrase construction would make Faulkner envious. Some of the views embraced by Sterne are less palatable than others - attacks on atheists, mysoginy, theories linking racial profiles to climate, his disparaging of the French and of Catholics, etc.

Even now, in my almost dottage, the lecture was occasionaly a chore and soporific, but the joy of making sense of a bawdy joke or a heart to heart conversation directly addressed to the readership "may it please your worships! Had Sterne been granted a reprieve from the merciless illness that put him in an early grave and written the forty Shandy volumes he had promised us, I'm sure I would have eventually read them all. I still wonder how Trim would have finished his tale of the King of Bohemia What is the book really about?

It says right on the cover: Another alter-ego of the author is the pastor Yorick, a transparent reference to "Hamlet"and a self-portrait of Sterne as the tragic court jester who is the only one capable of speaking truth to power. For the internet age, I have a third analogy of the author as an early incarnation of that virtual animal, the perfect troll, a thorn in the side "obstreperated" is Sterne's choice of descriptor of his pompous, rigid minded and pious contemporaries: Tristram's father, mother and especially his uncle Toby with an assortment doctors, lawyers, clerics, chambermaids, valets, etc.

Let's see how many of my favorite passages I can include in the space allocated by Goodreads for a proper review! Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule, - straightforward For, if he is a man of the least spirit, he will have fifty deviations from a straight line to make with this or that party as he goes along, which he can no way avoid. He will have views and prospects to himself perpetually solliciting his eye, which he can no more help standing still to look at than he can fly; he will moreover have various Accounts to reconcile: Anecdotes to pick up: Inscriptions to make out: Stories to weave in: Personages to call upon: Panygericks to post at his door: All which both the man and his mule are quite exempt from.

Speaking of mules, here's sample of Sterne's bawdy jokes: My father had a favourite little mare, which he had consigned over to the most beautiful Arabian horse, in order to have a pad out her for his own riding: By some neglect or other in Obadiah, it so fell out, that my father's expectations were answered with nothing better than a mule, and as ugly a beast of the kind as ever was produced. My mother and my uncle Toby expected my father would be the death of Obadiah - and that there never would be an end of the disaster. To continue with the literary theory, in defence of meandering, according to Tristram Shandy: Throwing the gauntlet at his critics who complained about the lack of plot and the rambling nature of the novel, Sterne accuses them of intellectual laziness.

Dare I bring James Joyce in here too, and mention Shandy as a precursor of the stream of consicence novel? Pray, Sir, in all the reading you have ever read, did you ever read such a book as Locke's Essay upon the Human Understanding? In defense of satire and in response to those critics who say that wit and judgement in this world never go together, Sterne replies: Sterne's crusade against backward thinking and fake puritanism continues by quoting la Rochefoucauld: Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

We are tormented with the opinions we have of things, and not by things themselves. Not practicalities trouble human beings, but dogmas concerning them The back and forth with the critics with regard with satirical, bawdy writing includes both defense and attack: Certainly there is a difference between Bitterness and Saltness, that is, between the malignity and the festivity of wit, the one is mere quickness of apprehension, void of humanity, and is a talent of the devil; the other comes down from the Father of Spirits, so pure and abstracted from persons, that willingly it hurts no man Did you think the world itself, Sir, had contained such a number of Jack asses?