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Tristram Shandy
2016-07-08 21:09:02 Post No. 8256425
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2016-07-08 21:09:02
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Why is this book not more discussed?
9 volumes long, and you never see the narrator-protagonist older than 5 years old, except for a volume-long digression describing his travels through Europe.
Constantly breaking the fourth wall, as experimental a timing as can be, extremely funny, joyous, but full of philosophy and religion, while satirizing both, pretty much indescribable but an excellent read. One of the only books I finished, and immediately started re-reading. It almost makes me cry to think of Sterne writing this thing while he was dying of tuberculosis. He writes about sex, he writes about the baptism of the unborn, he writes about the principles of fortification, he writes about obstetrics, politics, love, everything.
The film version is pretty good too.
