![]() ![]() ![]() It commits the worst crime that literature is capable of, in that it fails to provide adequate motivation for the reader to turn the page.Īdmirers will say that Sterne intended it to be frustrating, as if this makes the frustration acceptable. ![]() I’d go further and say that it is literally ‘pointless’. Even the book’s admirers admit that it is ‘frustrating’ for the reader. I’ve read around it and I understand the reasons why Tristram Shandy is considered a classic, but my problems with the book are based entirely on the experience of reading it. It’s been a laborious task, and I’m afraid not a happy one. I have been reading and studying Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman for the past couple of months. ![]() The Damnation of Obadiah, from Tristram Shandy, hand-coloured etching by James Bretherton, 1773 ![]()
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