{"product_id":"9781853262913","title":"Tristram Shandy","description":"With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography.This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'.","brand":"Laurence Sterne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47709752492350,"sku":"9781853262913","price":160.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781853262913_2b6654e6-cf34-42b4-8df5-dc3118b11ace.jpg?v=1707639691","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781853262913","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}