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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanĮdited by Ian Campbell Ross Oxford World's Classics

Oxford Commentaries on International Law.Sōseki’s I Am a Cat (1905–1906) is another sea cucumber produced under the influence of Tristram Shandy. He described the prose form of Tristram Shandy as “similar to a sea cucumber”, for it lacks structure and consistency, and it has neither beginning nor end. Natsume Sōseki introduced Tristram Shandy to Japan for the first time in 1897. Though some of them are almost word-for-word copies of the past literary works, they were not plagiarisms but intentional quotations with respect for the previous works. In Tristram Shandy, Sterne quoted lots of texts from the past literary works, including The Anatomy of Melancholy, without specifying the reference sources. Northrop Frye called encyclopedic and pedantic satires - it had been called “Menippean satire” until then - “anatomy” in his literary theory book Anatomy of Criticism (1957), by referring to The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1621), which is an archetype of the genre. It had inherited inversion of values, like carnival, from Rabelais, - Bakhtin called it “grotesque realism” - and multiple narrative and metafictional techniques from Cervantes.

Rabelais and Cervantes are explicitly referred to in Tristram Shandy. The digressions of Tristram Shandy are based on the theory of the “association of ideas” presented by John Locke in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), and Tristram Shandy is regarded as a precursor to “stream-of-consciousness” writings, such as Proust, Joyce, and Woolf. Tristram’s uncle Toby is a military veteran, and he is crazy about fortifications and sieges.

Tristram’s father Walter is a talkative theorist, and he advocates odd theories one after another.

For example, Tristram is going to write about his life and opinions, but he won’t come to the point at all. In Tristram Shandy, eccentric narrators get off the track over and over again. This novel is set as an autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a gentry in Yorkshire, Northern England, but he is not the protagonist in actuality. 1564) and Don Quixote by Cervantes (1605, 1615), and this novel was very interesting too. I enjoyed reading Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais (c.