The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Tristram sets out to write his own life and gets no further than the circumstances of his conception before the digressions take over. His father's theories, his uncle Toby's model fortifications, a midwife, a squashed nose and a great deal of black-lettered opinion crowd out the narrative for volumes at a time. The anti-novel two centuries early.
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- influenced by ↑ Don Quixote
- ↓ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- ↓ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- ↓ Jacques the Fatalist
- ↓ I Am a Cat
- ↓ Christopher Unborn
- ↓ Dom Casmurro
- ↓ The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
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