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Course Description

According to the protagonist-narrator of Laurence Sterne’s novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (published 1759-1767), “the truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding is to halve this matter amicably and leave him something to imagine.” A reader of Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, and Richard Burton, Sterne in his turn inspired Joyce and Nabokov, Beckett and Pirandello, Garcia Márquez, Kundera and Rushdie. Accepting the role of active, open-minded, and imaginative readers of Sterne’s novel will enable us to reflect on the human condition with Tristram, to become happily lost in his unconstrained digressions, and to appreciate his eccentric sense of humor.

 

For our first class, please read Volume One of the novel.

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