Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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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. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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As novels go, Sterne's book is one of the most outstanding I ever 'met' so far. Its main characteristic is that it doesn't get anywhere and is, mostly, a series of wild-running digressions posing as a fictitious autobiography. It is annoying and frustrating, and absolutely hilarious, to wrestle with this. This graphic novel fully lives up to the wild goose chase the original is. As often is the case with pictures, they manage to tell pages of ramblings in one or two frames which is why the reproductions is astoundingly complete. You have Tristram Shandy, the narrative voice, scrambling in and out of the frames of the anecdotes, dragging along a group of hypothetical readers who are being monologued at in the same way as in the novel - only they have to endure physically what is only imaginary in the original novel. And the authors of the graphic novel actually added another layer because here there is 'the author (of the graphic novel) and his dog' also following Tristram Shandy, offering literary criticism and comments on the reception history and interpretations. This may sound 'educational', but never is because author and dog suffer just as much from having to run after Tristran Shandy as the hypothetical readers. The style of drawings is a bit raw and vulgarly explicit in a way that fits Sterne's novel from the 18th century surprisingly well. This, I think, could be a great first contact opportunity with Tristram Shandy.
How I met your mother, als Buch...
... Stimmt natürlich nicht ganz. Aber so wie Ted Mosby seinen Kindern von der Mutter erzählen will und dabei vom hundertsten ins tausendste kommt, so erzählt Tristram Shandy von seinem Leben und seinen Ansichten und Mann erfährt alles, außer: Sein Leben und seine Ansichten. Während er ständig abschweift, zieht der Roman schamlos jedes literarische Stilmittel durch den Kakao und das mit sehr viel Humor. Da kommt das Vorwort erst mitten drin, denn jetzt hat der Held endlich mal kurz Zeit für sowas, da gerät die Kapitelnummerierung durcheinander, aber die ist ja eh nur so ne öde Konvention. Mit 1616 Seiten war das das dickste Werk, was ich je gelesen hab. Ich würde daher eine Ausgabe in mehreren Bänden empfehlen, den das wäre rückblickend einfacher gewesen. Soweit ich weiß, ist Haffmanns der einzige Verlag bei dessen Übersetzung die Gedankenstriche korrekt übernommen worden sind. Sexuelle Themen sind Tristan unangenehm und dann gibt's zeilenweise nur Gedankenstriche, weil er es einfach nicht über die Lippen bringt. Wenn man die weglässt oder kürzt, wäre das doch schade. Tldr: Großer Spaß, für Leute, die mit Literaturparodie was anfangen können. Literarisches Meisterwerk. Sehr umfangreich.
Description
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. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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As novels go, Sterne's book is one of the most outstanding I ever 'met' so far. Its main characteristic is that it doesn't get anywhere and is, mostly, a series of wild-running digressions posing as a fictitious autobiography. It is annoying and frustrating, and absolutely hilarious, to wrestle with this. This graphic novel fully lives up to the wild goose chase the original is. As often is the case with pictures, they manage to tell pages of ramblings in one or two frames which is why the reproductions is astoundingly complete. You have Tristram Shandy, the narrative voice, scrambling in and out of the frames of the anecdotes, dragging along a group of hypothetical readers who are being monologued at in the same way as in the novel - only they have to endure physically what is only imaginary in the original novel. And the authors of the graphic novel actually added another layer because here there is 'the author (of the graphic novel) and his dog' also following Tristram Shandy, offering literary criticism and comments on the reception history and interpretations. This may sound 'educational', but never is because author and dog suffer just as much from having to run after Tristran Shandy as the hypothetical readers. The style of drawings is a bit raw and vulgarly explicit in a way that fits Sterne's novel from the 18th century surprisingly well. This, I think, could be a great first contact opportunity with Tristram Shandy.
How I met your mother, als Buch...
... Stimmt natürlich nicht ganz. Aber so wie Ted Mosby seinen Kindern von der Mutter erzählen will und dabei vom hundertsten ins tausendste kommt, so erzählt Tristram Shandy von seinem Leben und seinen Ansichten und Mann erfährt alles, außer: Sein Leben und seine Ansichten. Während er ständig abschweift, zieht der Roman schamlos jedes literarische Stilmittel durch den Kakao und das mit sehr viel Humor. Da kommt das Vorwort erst mitten drin, denn jetzt hat der Held endlich mal kurz Zeit für sowas, da gerät die Kapitelnummerierung durcheinander, aber die ist ja eh nur so ne öde Konvention. Mit 1616 Seiten war das das dickste Werk, was ich je gelesen hab. Ich würde daher eine Ausgabe in mehreren Bänden empfehlen, den das wäre rückblickend einfacher gewesen. Soweit ich weiß, ist Haffmanns der einzige Verlag bei dessen Übersetzung die Gedankenstriche korrekt übernommen worden sind. Sexuelle Themen sind Tristan unangenehm und dann gibt's zeilenweise nur Gedankenstriche, weil er es einfach nicht über die Lippen bringt. Wenn man die weglässt oder kürzt, wäre das doch schade. Tldr: Großer Spaß, für Leute, die mit Literaturparodie was anfangen können. Literarisches Meisterwerk. Sehr umfangreich.