項耿傳 "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" By Laurence Sterne

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Mar 18, 2013 - A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings. ... The 18th century novelist Laurence Sterne died on 18 March 1768. During a recent trip to Oxford University Press’s out of print library in Oxford, we came across the 1928 Oxford World’s Classics edition of his novel A Sentimental ...

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies

Laurence Sterne, who penned the rude and anarchic "Tristram Shandy", died on this day in 1768. His influence ran deep, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to James Joyce

By 18th-century standards, "Tristram Shandy" is avant-garde

Author Laurence Sterne died on March 18th 1768

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 "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" By Laurence Sterne 已有一中譯本【項耿傳】蒲隆譯：上海譯文出版，2012。

“To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.”
―from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" ByLaurence Sterne

This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary scandal when it was first published on 1760. With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretense of being an autobiography, TRISTAM SHANDY fascinates like a verbal game of chess. Milan Kundera has said that it is the eighteenth-century novel he loves best.

Milan Kundera的書以歐洲大陸為主（捷克、德語系、法文；當然他對英國的TRISTRAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne（1703-68）五體投地）。