{"id":7497,"date":"2007-03-01T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:40:41","slug":"falstaff-on-tristram-shandy-by-lawrence-sterne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/falstaff-on-tristram-shandy-by-lawrence-sterne\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite jest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Title: <\/strong>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman<\/p>\n

By:<\/strong> Lawrence Sterne<\/p>\n

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There are many, many reasons to love Tristram Shandy<\/i><\/a> – only half of them involving the term ‘postmodern’. Sterne’s rollicking opus is at once a satirical masterpiece of the order of Rabelais and Swift, and a novel so restlessly ingenious it makes Foer and Calvino seem old-fashioned. The tale of a man who starts to tell you his life story, but nine volumes later has barely managed to get born, Tristram Shandy<\/i> is a hilarious tribute to the idea that every story leads to an infinite labyrinth of other stories, and how sometimes, NOT sticking to the point can be the more entertaining path.\n<\/p>\n

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At another level, of course, Tristram Shandy<\/i> is a deeply serious book. Critics will tell you that it’s a rebellion against the tyranny of narrative, against the clockwork of birth and death; a sustained and breathless evasion of the fact of growing old. With his asides, his circumlocutions, his constant side-tracking, Sterne’s narrator is not just trying to kill time, he is trying to kill Time.<\/p>\n

Mostly though, Sterne is just plain old fun. What other novelist would draw a squiggly line across the page to graph the progress of his plot? What other writer would stop in the middle of a sentence to scold the reader for not paying attention and make her go back to the last chapter to read it again? This isn’t just a book ahead of its time, it’s a book still waiting for its time to come. <\/p>\n

Oh, and for those of you who find the idea of a 720 page novel daunting, there’s always Martin Rowson’s superb comic book rendition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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