The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; Gentleman Volume 1

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General Books, 2013 - 98 Seiten
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... Multitudinis imperitae non formido judicia, meis tamen, rogo, parcant opusculis --in quibus fuit propositi semper, a jocis ad seria, in seriis vicissim ad jocos transire. Joan. Saresberiensis, -- Episcopus Lugdun. SLAWKENBERGII FABELLA Vespera quadam frigidula, posteriori in parte mensis Augusti, peregrinus, mulo fusco colore incidens, mantica a tergo, paucis indusiis, binis calceis, braccisque sericis coccineis repleta Argentoratum ingressus est Militi eura percontanti, quum portus intrare dixit, se apud Nasorum pro. montorium fuisse, Francofurtum proficisci, et Argentoratum, transitu ad sines Sarmatiae mensis intervallo, reversurum. Miles peregrini in faciem suspexit: -- Dl boni, nova forma nasi! At multum mini profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu finistrft, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit. Dolet mihi, ait miles tympanistam nanum et valgum alloquens virum adeo urbanum vaginam perdidisse: itinerari SLAWKENBERGIUS'S TALE It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-satin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg. He told the sentinel, who questioned him as he entered the gates, that he had been at the Promontory of Noses --was going on to Frankfort--and should be back again at Strasburg that day month in his way to the borders of Crim Tartary. The sentinel looked up into the stranger's face: --he never saw such a nose in his life I --I have made a very good venture of it, quoth the

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If Fielding showed that the novel (like the traditional epic or drama) could make the chaos of life coherent in art, Sterne only a few years later in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760--67) laughed away the notion of order. In Sterne's world, people are sealed off in their own minds so that only in unpredictable moments of spontaneous feeling are they aware of another human being. Reviewers attacked the obscenity of Tristram's imagined autobiography as it was published (two volumes each in 1759, early 1761, late 1761, 1765, and one in 1767), particularly when the author revealed himself as a clergyman, but the presses teemed with imitations of this great literary hit of the 1760s. Through the mind of the eccentric hero, Sterne subverted accepted ideas on conception, birth, childhood, education, and the contemplation of maturity and death, so that Tristram's concerns touched his contemporaries and are still important. Since Tristram Shandy is patently a great and lasting comic work that yet seems, as E. M. Forster said, "ruled by the Great God Muddle," much recent criticism has centered on the question of its unity or lack of it; and its manipulation of time and of mental processes has been considered particularly relevant to the problems of fiction in our day. Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768) has been immensely admired by some critics for its superb tonal balance of irony and sentiment. His Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760) catches the spirit of its time by dramatically preaching benevolence and sympathy as superior to doctrine. Whether as Tristram or as Yorick, Sterne is probably the most memorably personal voice in eighteenth-century fiction.

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