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’TIS a pity, cried my father one winter’s night, after a three hours painful translation of Slawkenbergius——’tis a pity, cried my father, putting my mother’s threadpaper into the book for a mark, as he spoke——that truth, brother Toby, should shut herself up in such impregnable fastnesses, and be so obstinate as not to surrender herself sometimes up upon the closest siege.——
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Vol II, ch XXXIV)
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm#chap02
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Tristram Shandy … Unglücksrabe oder Von der Bahre bis zur Wiege – Von Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sternes „Tristram Shandy“ revolutionierte den Roman: Ein Werk voller Abschweifungen, Wortspiele und radikaler Erzählexperimente. Statt einer geordneten Biografie bietet es ein labyrinthisches Spiel mit Form und Lesererwartung.
Der Ich-Erzähler Tristram will sein Leben schildern – doch er wird ständig unterbrochen, etwa durch seinen pedantischen Vater Walter oder den kriegsbesessenen Onkel Toby. Mit schwarzen Seiten, fehlenden Kapiteln und verspäteten Vorworten brach Sterne alle Konventionen. Goethe pries ihn als „schönsten Geist“, Nietzsche als „freiesten Schriftsteller“. Lessing wollte für ein weiteres Buch von Sterne sogar “fünf Jahre seines Lebens” opfern.
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"I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it." On his birthday, 10 Laurence Sterne Quotes:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/11/24-november-laurence-sterne-quotes.html
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Über das Recht, sein Steckenpferd zu reiten – oder: Die Höflichkeit der Vernunft – Von Onkel Michael
Es gibt Sätze, die auf den ersten Blick unscheinbar wirken und doch ein ganzes Weltbild tragen. Einer davon stammt aus Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy:
Solange ein Mensch sein Steckenpferd friedlich und ohne Aufsehen auf des Königs Landstraße reitet und weder Sie noch mich zwingt, hinter ihm aufzusitzen – ei, mein Herr –, was geht es dann uns beide an?
Ein Satz, so leicht wie Tee mit Milch, und doch schwer wie ein moralischer Grundstein.
https://onkelmichael.blog/2025/11/06/von-steckenpferden-toleranz-und-anderen-fixen-ideen/
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Ich hab die über 800 Seiten des #TristramShandy von #LaurenceSterne ja damals zwischen 24. Dezember 1995 und Ende Januar 1996 quasi weggeatmet – um dann 2 Monate Pause zu machen, weil ich mit dem einzigen abschweifungsfrei erzähltem „Kapitel“ nichts anfangen konnte,¹ aber zeitgenössische Lesys mussten mit einem Veröffentlichungszeitraum von 1759 bis 1767 klarkommen!
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¹ Endspurt dann 31.3.-5.4.1996 -
Gibt es eigentlich eine Korrelation, ob #TristramShandy¹ von #LaurenceSterne vor allem von ADHS-lys geschätzt wird?
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¹ »Leben und Ansichten von Tristram Shandy, Gentleman«, Org englisch »The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman« -
"Feel it, said she."
The most erotic scene in all of literature.
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Joseph Wright of Derby -- Maria and her Dog Silvio -- oil on canvas -- illustrating Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'. The model was Mrs Richard Bassano. I W.pinxt, 1781 -- Derby Museum and Art Gallery -- Public domain.
I've just finished "A Sentimental Journey". Charming work, half novel, half travel literature, all infused with both a playful flirtatiousness and an irony that can leave the reader guessing yet not frustrated. The Maria episode that comes towards the end of the book and was foreshadowed in "Tristram Shandy" captured the imagination of readers and artists.
>>When we had got within half a league of Moulines, at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket, I discovered poor Maria sitting under a poplar. She was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand:—a small brook ran at the foot of the tree...
She was dress’d in white, and much as my friend described her, except that her hair hung loose, which before was twisted within a silk net.—She had superadded likewise to her jacket, a pale green riband, which fell across her shoulder to the waist; at the end of which hung her pipe.
Her goat had been as faithless as her lover; and she had got a little dog in lieu of him, which she had kept tied by a string to her girdle: as I looked at her dog, she drew him towards her with the string.—“Thou shalt not leave me, Sylvio,” said she.<<
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I've just finished Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", which came to me strongly recommended and which I know enjoys a cult following.
That cult won't count me as follower, I'm afraid. On the whole, I did not enjoy the almost 600 pages of rambling digressions, learned satire, and bawdy wordplay. At times I felt I was stuck with the Georgian equivalent of that tiresome elderly relative who insists on re-enacting sketch after sketch of Monty Python. Readers who enjoy "Don Quixote", Rabelais, and postmodern metafictionality will probably derive more pleasure from the book than I did.
Nevertheless, it wasn't all a joyless slog. Like so many readers down the years, I was taken with Uncle Toby, who combines an eccentric passion for military fortifications with a winning kindness; after catching a fly, he releases it saying "I'll not hurt thee, go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? —This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me".
As well as enjoying some of Sterne's play with ideas about determinism, I was charmed by the narrator's encounter in rural Languedoc with a young woman who has him join a dance with her companions. This delightful pastoral scene made me think I might enjoy Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey".
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#LaurenceSterne #18thCenturyLiteratureImage:Laurence Sterne -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- 1760 -- National Portrait Gallery, London -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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@johncarlosbaez @RanaldClouston @bookstodon
Bravo, thanks for the link! A great piece by Jess Keiser on Sterne and Tristram Shandy, and on the more anarchic elements in 18th century literature. Encourages me to re-read Swift and Fielding with open eyes (and, of course, to go back to Sterne).
#LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy #HenryFielding #JonathanSwift #literature #modernism #JessKeiser
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#FinishedReading my first foray into 18th century literature, although I doubt much of the rest of it reads like this, with its twisted structure, absurd digressions, and typographical jokes. Some of it is incredibly quotable, fresh, and fun; other parts border on incomprehensible as the centuries render the jokes obscure. #Bookstodon @bookstodon #TristramShandy #LaurenceSterne
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"And in that moment, replied I, most willingly would I say something very civil to you for all these courtesies. Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of the temperature; and certainly, added I, if it is the same blood which comes from the heart which descends to the extremes (touching her wrist) I am sure you must have one of the best pulses of any woman in the world.—Feel it, said she, holding out her arm."
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‘The motly emblem of my work.’ Colourful marbled page from the first edition of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759–67) — these were unique in each copy, representing the element of chance in Sterne’s narrative project. #LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy #books #publishing
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"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."
The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66908/66908-h/66908-h.htm#LETTER_LXVII_TO_MR_M_mdashSancho corresponded with #LaurenceSterne from 1766. The publication of the letters after Sterne's death made Sancho famous.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-letters-of-the-late-ignatius-sancho-an-african-1782 -
#LaurenceSterne (along with the likes of #IrisMurdoch) disprove the notion there's no such thing as a philosophical novel in English. "Tristram Shandy" plays with the philosophical ideas of Locke.
And more, as the exploration/adaptation of "Tristram Shandy", "A cock and bull story" suggests (1:24) https://youtu.be/wXzuUJZuqUI
Two podcasts on the topic, one from #ABC Radio: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-philosophy-in-tristram-shandy/3329516
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#LaurenceSterne was born #OTD 24 Nov 1713 in #Clonmel, Co. #Tipperary. A clergyman, he is best known for his writing, including sermons, memoirs and his novels: "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" and "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" https://dib.ie/biography/sterne-laurence-a8285
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Backstory: the extraordinary opening sentence of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, born in Clonmel #OTD in 1713 #LaurenceSterne #TristramShandy #books
