Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne.epub Guide

Perhaps literature’s most lovable eccentric, a soldier who recreates battles in his bowling green because he cannot express his emotions through words.

Don't try to "finish" this book for the sake of the ending. Read it for the detours. As Tristram says, "Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading!" Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne.epub

Mimicking the frantic, stuttering pace of real thought. 3. The Comedy of Frustration Perhaps literature’s most lovable eccentric, a soldier who

The humor is bawdy, intellectual, and deeply human. Sterne mocks the Enlightenment’s obsession with logic by showing just how irrational human beings actually are. 4. Why It Still Matters Sterne mocks the Enlightenment’s obsession with logic by

The heart of the book lies in the "hobby-horses"—the obsessive fixations—of the Shandy household.

A man who believes a child’s entire future depends on the length of their nose and the name they are given.