The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Name: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Author: Laurence Sterne

by Laurence Sterne

Experimental novel with digression and playful narrative structure about befuddled protagonist

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Laurence Sterne

Sterne's Tristram Shandy is one of the most formally experimental novels ever written, anticipating modernist stream-of-consciousness by nearly two centuries. His playful self-consciousness about narrative conventions influenced writers from Dickens to Woolf to Beckett.

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