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Tristram Shandy de Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy: Classic Fiction

Autor Laurence Sterne
en Limba Engleză Audio – 30 iun 2009

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Observăm în Tristram Shandy o luptă fascinantă a individului cu propria biografie: încercarea eroului de a-și povesti viața este mereu zădărnicită de asociații de idei, amintiri colaterale și filozofii de familie. Miza nu este cronologia, ci fluiditatea conștiinței. Apreciem modul în care Laurence Sterne transformă actul scrierii într-un spectacol al amânării, unde nașterea protagonistului întârzie sute de pagini în favoarea teoriilor tatălui său, Walter, sau a hărților de asediu ale unchiului Toby. Merită menționat că această „dezordine” este, de fapt, o arhitectură narativă de o precizie matematică, menită să surprindă hazardul minții umane.

Cititorul care a apreciat fluxul conștiinței și fragmentarea timpului din To the Lighthouse de Virginia Woolf va găsi aici aceeași explorare a interiorității — dar într-un context satiric și exuberant, specific secolului al XVIII-lea. Dacă în A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Laurence Sterne se apleca asupra subiectivității emoționale, în Tristram Shandy el împinge limitele limbajului și ale formatului de carte, folosind pagini negre sau diagrame pentru a exprima ceea ce cuvintele nu pot.

Remarcăm o libertate a spiritului care lipsește multor romane contemporane. Deși este contemporan cu titluri precum Robinson Crusoe, Tristram Shandy refuză rigoarea realistă în favoarea unei meta-ficțiuni care chestionează însăși natura povestirii. Este o celebrare a excentricității umane, unde obsesiile mici devin mari subiecte de studiu existențial.

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ISBN-13: 9789626349670
ISBN-10: 9626349670
Dimensiuni: 137 x 62 x 137 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: NAXOS Audiobooks
Seria Classic Fiction

Locul publicării:Hong Kong

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o experiență de lectură non-liniară și plină de umor intelectual. Cititorul câștigă acces la unul dintre cele mai inovatoare experimente literare din istorie, învățând că o digresiune poate fi mai valoroasă decât destinația. Este volumul ideal pentru cei care vor să înțeleagă rădăcinile postmodernismului într-un format clasic, accesibil și surprinzător de actual.

Despre autor

Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) a fost un romancier anglo-irlandez și cleric anglican, a cărui voce literară a rămas unică prin mixul de erudiție și satiră. Crescut într-o familie de militari, experiență care a hrănit personajul unchiului Toby, Sterne a studiat la Cambridge înainte de a se dedica vieții ecleziastice. Cariera sa literară a explodat târziu, odată cu publicarea primelor volume din Tristram Shandy, lucrare ce i-a adus celebritatea instantanee. Autorul a scris și A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, inspirată de călătoriile sale pe continent pentru tratarea tuberculozei, boală care i-a curmat viața la scurt timp după publicarea acesteia.

Descriere

Laurence Sterne's most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary eighteenth-century values. Renowned for its parody of established narrative techniques, Tristram Shandy is commonly regarded as the forerunner of avant-garde fiction. Tristram's characteristic digressions on a whole range of unlikely subjects (including battle strategy and noses!) are endlessly surprising and make this one of Britain's greatest comic achievements. A cast of strange characters populate this strangest of novels: gentle Uncle Toby, sarcastic Walter and of course, the pompous, garrulous Tristram himself. This edition is read by Anton Lesser in a tour de force performance.

Recenzii

Naxos audiobooks has just released an unabridged version, read by Anton Lesser with humour and brio. Lesser's light tenor is perfectly suited to the many roles (Parson Yorick, Doctor Slop, et al) who crowd Sterne's narrative. This translates into 15 CDs and about 19 hours of listening. Perfect for a wet summer. -- Robert McCrum, The Observer. This extraordinary novel - precursor of post-modernism by 250 years - would be an unwieldy beast in unabridged form: its 19 hours of whim and wit would be indigestible , if swallowed whole. But at a gentle pace it makes a lovely listen, as Anton Lesser brings characters and situations to life in infectiously unbuttoned style. Massive books like Sterne's don't fit modern lifestyles, but this massive audio-book may well fit in very well. -- Betty Tadman, The Scotsman As a general rule I go along with the advice that if a book doesn't grab you by the end of chapter 4, don't waste your time, there are plenty more. Yes, but not like Tristram Shandy. Nothing I've ever come across is like Sterne's extraordinary comic tour de force published 250 years ago which, I freely admit, I found pretty hard going a long way past chapter 4. And then, suddenly, I got it. Or at least I realised I was coming at it from the wrong direction. It isn't a novel. It has no plot. Chapters break off in mid-sentence because, advises the narrator, 'I would not give a groat for that man's knowledge in pen-craft who does not understand this: That the best plain narrative in the world, tacked very close to the last spirited apostrophe to my Uncle Toby, would have felt both cold and vapid upon the reader's palate; therefore I forthwith put an end to the chapter, though I was in the middle of my story.' And which story might that have been? The one about Uncle Toby's dalliance with the widow Wadman? Or his manservant Corporal Trim's tireless reconstructions of Flanders campaigns, complete with battering rams and catapults on the bowling green behind the vegetable garden? Or of Dr Slop, summoned to assist at the narrator's birth, being thrown from his horse and ... Enough. If you've ever sat spellbound listening to a witty, satirical, outrageous, digressive raconteur regaling you with endless stories about preposterous characters that lead nowhere but keep you hanging on every word, trust me - they learned their craft from Sterne. So did postmodernists such as James Joyce and Flann O'Brien. It is tailor-made for audio, as is Anton Lesser's reading - intelligent, humorous, charming. Dr Johnson admired the book enormously, but opined that 'nothing odd will do long'. For once he was wrong. Tristram Shandy is decidedly odd and extremely long, but it has stayed the course. -- Sue Arnold, The Guardian When I'm in London during the summer, I don't have the car. This is liberating to an extent, but does mean that I can't listen to Tristram Shandy. I bought the unabridged 15-CD set at the best possible place - Shandy Hall, Laurence Sterne's home at Coxwold, in Yorkshire.
On visiting, I became uncomfortably aware that I'd never managed to get through any Sterne. Anton Lesser reads Tristram to perfection. By the time I'd driven back to Ramsgate the next day, I had heard 10 CDs, but what about the remainder? My ears are the wrong shape for an iPod; the little earphones fall out. I can't expect the family to share Sterne in the car. Besides, is he suitable for children?
Eventually, they may take to him more quickly than me always going off at a tangent, with no obvious beginning, middle and end, Tristram should appeal to the internet generation. -- Clive Aslet, Town Mouse Country Life

Notă biografică

Born in Clonmel, Ireland, in 1713, Laurence Sterne spent the first ten years of his life moving from place to place within Ireland and also Yorkshire, as his father, an army ensign, was assigned and reassigned constantly. Educated at a grammar school near Halifax, Sterne took a place at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1733, two years after his father died of a fever in Jamaica. Going on to become a clergyman, he published four sermons during his lifetime - but it was for his literary works that he earned great acclaim, particularly The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, his nine-volume masterpiece, which made him a celebrity.

Dogged by ill-health for much of his life, he took various recuperative trips to the continent, which informed his final work, A Sentimental Journey, published barely three weeks before his death in London in 1768 at the age of fifty-four.

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With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretense of being an autobiography, Tristram Shandy fascinates like a verbal game of chess.

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