Tristram Shandy

American  

[shan-dee] / ˈʃæn di /

noun

1. a novel (1759–67) by Laurence Sterne.

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Example Sentences

Disorderly in its construction, “Tristram Shandy” is ribald and risqué in its content, yet charitable and affecting in tone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sterne was a muse of the broken-hearted, and, for all its oddities, “Tristram Shandy” is 18th-century sentimental fiction at its finest.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was critiquing naturalism; instead, he wanted to frame a counter-history, to move beyond the realistic fiction of Samuel Richardson or Dostoevsky toward the more amorphous whimsy of Denis Diderot or Laurence Sterne, whose 18th century mashup “Tristram Shandy” Kundera admired, characterizing it — approvingly — as “unserious throughout.”

From Los Angeles Times

In 1759, at the beginning of the history of the English novel, Laurence Sterne began publishing installments of his metadramatic novel, “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.”

From Washington Post

The same is true of Laurence Sterne’s classic “Tristram Shandy,” the print version of which includes all sorts of visual mischief: blank pages, blacked-out pages, scribbles, dots and typographical chaos, to say nothing of great gobbets of Latin and French.

From Washington Post