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Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict.
A humorous compendium of European thought and literature – pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais – emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram’s conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself.
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'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'
One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.
The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.
The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.
Doomed to become the ‘sport of fortune’ by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy’s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor’s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window… Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy.

В серии "Мастера книжной иллюстрации" представляем вашему вниманию роман английского писателя Лоренса Стерна "Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии", проиллюстрированный французским художником Морисом Лелуаром. "Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии", проиллюстрированное Морисом Лелуаром, обладает великим множеством достоинств: и очаровательный, воздушный слог, и тонкий, деликатный юмор, и выразительные описания природных красот, но ничто не сравнится с восхитительным впечатлением, которое производит главный отличительный признак сентиментализма, столь блестяще реализованный у Стерна: "предпочтение эмоциональных,…

of English, University of Sussex.

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography.

This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'.

Творчество Лоренса Стерна, выдающегося романиста XVIII века, оказало огромное влияние на европейскую литературу. Его роман «Сентиментальное путешествие» завоевал любовь читателей всего мира и дал название целому литературному направлению.

Пастор Йорик принимает решение отправиться путешествовать по Франции, «чтобы самому все увидеть», и увлекает читателя с собой. Его путеводные записки и любовные похождения никого не оставят равнодушным. Знаменитые преемники Стерна отмечали их неподражаемые иронию и юмор, парадоксальное сочетание благородства и мелочности, чувственности и скептицизма.

Все это делает «Сентиментальное путешествие» бессмертной классикой, стоящей у истоков современного романа.

Когда в Лондоне были опубликованы первые два томика «Жизни и мнений Тристрама Шенди, джентльмена», имя Лоренса Стерна (1713–1768), провинциального пастора из Йоркшира, никому не было известно. По словам одного из биографов Стерна, книга произвела впечатление «литературной бомбы» – тираж был распродан в течение нескольких недель, а насмешливый, ироничный, остроумный автор в одночасье стал знаменитым, и вскоре его слава перекинулась на европейский континент. «Эта книга, столь взбалмошная, столь мудрая и веселая, – настоящий английский Рабле...» – писал французский философ-просветитель Дидро, а Вольтер поставил Стерна-художника даже выше…

Лоренс Стерн (1713—1768) — англійський письменник, автор широко відомих романів «Життя і думки Трістрама Шенді, джентльмена» і «Сентиментальна подорож Францією та Італією». Вони залишили глибокий слід у світовій літературі і досі цікавлять читачів не тільки як пам’ятник минулого, а й як живі твори мистецтва. Роман про Трістрама Шенді, над яким автор працював сім років, не тільки надзвичайно химерний і демонстративно несхожий на всі твори, що виходили до нього, але й має свою особливу пунктуацію.. Можна сказати, що Стерн пародіює просвітницькі романи, написані його попередниками, і уся книга в цьому сенсі може бути сприйнята як грандіозний жарт у дев’яти томах, як блискуча літературна містифікація. «Трістрам Шенді» витримав багато видань і перекладений багатьма європейськими мовами. Українською друкується вперше.

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Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, 'Tristram Shandy' caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalized with bawdy descriptions and rambling prose. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon, Rabelais and Jonathan Swift, clergyman Lawrence Sterne manages to both eloquently champion the literary and scientific views of the day, and to satirize those same idols in the next outrageous breath.
The questionable 'hero' and narrator of the novel, the eponymous Tristram Shandy, attempts to tell the reader his life story, but as he digresses ever further on everything from sexual practices, the importance of a name, obstetrics, linguistics, weaponry and philosophy, the reader quickly learns that the path won't be a linear one, and gets wrapped up in the author's exuberance and wit - as Tristram's ill-fated conception and birth don't even enter the story until Volume III. Encompassing a humorously memorable cast of misfits, including his eccentric father Walter, obsessive Uncle Toby, accident-prone mother Susannah, pastor Yorick, and a gaggle of other characters, Tristram Shandy's restless energy and modern-seeming wit explain why Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Schopenhauer, Michael Winterbottom, and Michael Nyman count among its numerous fans.

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne. "I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done..." Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate "hero" Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, "The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy" is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. "The Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.

Tristram Shandy is one of English literature's most curious, complex and comic novels and is therefore perfectly suited to the distinctive, anarchic style of the celebrated cartoonist and illustrator Martin Rowson. Here Rowson travels with his faithful companion Pete through the tortuous paths of Laurence Sterne's infinitely digressive world, interpreting the great novel in a new way.

'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read...'

Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning with Tristram's conception, the novel recounts his progress in 'this scurvy and disasterous world of ours', including his misnaming during baptism and his accidental circumcision by a falling sash-window at the age of five; unsurprisingly, Tristram declares that he has been 'the continual sport of what the world calls Fortune'. Tristram Shandy also offers the narrator's 'opinions', at once facetious and highly serious, on books and learning in an age of rapidly expanding print culture, and on the changing understanding of the roles of writers and readers alike.

This revised edition retains the first edition text incorporating Sterne's later changes, and adds two original Hogarth illustrations and a wealth of contextualizing information.

Без всякого преувеличения можно сказать, что имя Лоренса Стерна в мировой литературе стоит в одном ряду с именами Сервантеса, Рабле и Свифта. В свое время Стерна читали и высоко оценивали его творчество такие известные люди, как Карамзин, Радищев и Пушкин. Литературный контекст, созданный легким пером Стерна вошел в сокровищницу мировой литературы.
Текст начитан с издания «Всемирная литература», перевод и примечания А. А. Франковского
Качество записи – приличное, исполнение – я старался.

Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling.

This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for Sterne's literary career.

Вышедший в свет задолго до того, как сформировались законы и границы жанра, «Тристрам Шенди» стал весьма оригинальным произведением для своего времени и предвестником «потока сознания» в литературе XX века. Подражая Рабле, Свифту, Сервантесу, английский пастор Лоренс Стерн создал нечаянный шедевр: он хотел позабавиться сам и развлечь читателей «на сезон», — но публика жалует этот остроумный, дерзкий и, как бы сейчас сказали, кинематографичный роман вот уже два с половиной столетия. «Сентиментальное путешествие» Стерн закончить не успел — жизнерадостный священник Йорик добрался только до Франции, — однако сумел и рассмешить, и растрогать…

A forerunner of psychological fiction, and considered a landmark work for its innovative use of narrative devices, Tristram Shandy was both celebrated and vilified when first published in 1759. While the narrative's endless digressions drew criticism, the novel's bawdy humor made it a cause for celebration in eighteenth-century London. Originally released in nine separate volumes, it is literature's famed "cock and bull" story, reveling in parody and satire. Laurence Sterne's topsy-turvy masterpiece is, in effect, a novel about writing a novel—producing a fictional world that is as strange and wonderful as the process of its creation.…

История необычной и эксцентричной помещичьей семьи, полная иронических - на грани непристойности - намеков, игр "лиц" и "масок" персонажей, скепсиса и даже пародий, - все это "Жизнь и мнения Тристрама Шенди, джентльмена". Роман лег в основу нового комедийного фильма британского режиссера Майкла Уинтерботгома "Тристрам Шенди: История петуха и быка" с великолепными актерами Стивом Куганом, Стивеном Фраем и другими.