Shandy - Laurence Sterne.epub | Tristram

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

A man who believes a child’s entire future depends on the length of their nose and the name they are given. Perhaps literature’s most lovable eccentric, a soldier who

The heart of the book lies in the "hobby-horses"—the obsessive fixations—of the Shandy household. Sterne mocks the Enlightenment’s obsession with logic by

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

Here is a review structured to capture the chaotic brilliance of the text. Review: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman