The Penguin English Library Edition 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, 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.
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Great novel, not helpful kindle edition
12 janvier 2013
Par paola
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I bought this kindle ebook confidently because it was a Penguin edition - and, I'm not gonna lie, the price was great too - but I was very disappointed. I'm a literature student, and I found it difficult for literature students as well as non-students to have a complete and successful reading.
The novel is excellent, but it is also form the XVIII century, and a reader today needs a lot of information that is not covered in the footnotes. The footnotes only translate phrases in other languages - latin, french, etc. - (however, there is a whole passage around three pages long in french that they don't translate), or are the footnotes written by Sterne himself, which obviously don't explain us his historical context. I would have expected to find in this footnotes historical context or explanations, as well as notes regarding some XVIII Century vocabulary, idioms, expressions, etc. I thought that with a Penguin edition I would have a more complete reading, but I think it would have been almost the same if I had downloaded from the Internet a free copy (like in Project Gutenberg) since this annotated edition offers no great help.
The novel is excellent, but it is also form the XVIII century, and a reader today needs a lot of information that is not covered in the footnotes. The footnotes only translate phrases in other languages - latin, french, etc. - (however, there is a whole passage around three pages long in french that they don't translate), or are the footnotes written by Sterne himself, which obviously don't explain us his historical context. I would have expected to find in this footnotes historical context or explanations, as well as notes regarding some XVIII Century vocabulary, idioms, expressions, etc. I thought that with a Penguin edition I would have a more complete reading, but I think it would have been almost the same if I had downloaded from the Internet a free copy (like in Project Gutenberg) since this annotated edition offers no great help.
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