Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Autore di Vita e opinioni di Tristram Shandy, gentiluomo
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If Fielding showed that the novel (like the traditional epic or drama) could make the chaos of life coherent in art, Sterne only a few years later in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760--67) laughed away the notion of order. In Sterne's world, people are sealed off in their mostra altro own minds so that only in unpredictable moments of spontaneous feeling are they aware of another human being. Reviewers attacked the obscenity of Tristram's imagined autobiography as it was published (two volumes each in 1759, early 1761, late 1761, 1765, and one in 1767), particularly when the author revealed himself as a clergyman, but the presses teemed with imitations of this great literary hit of the 1760s. Through the mind of the eccentric hero, Sterne subverted accepted ideas on conception, birth, childhood, education, and the contemplation of maturity and death, so that Tristram's concerns touched his contemporaries and are still important. Since Tristram Shandy is patently a great and lasting comic work that yet seems, as E. M. Forster said, "ruled by the Great God Muddle," much recent criticism has centered on the question of its unity or lack of it; and its manipulation of time and of mental processes has been considered particularly relevant to the problems of fiction in our day. Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768) has been immensely admired by some critics for its superb tonal balance of irony and sentiment. His Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760) catches the spirit of its time by dramatically preaching benevolence and sympathy as superior to doctrine. Whether as Tristram or as Yorick, Sterne is probably the most memorably personal voice in eighteenth-century fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal (1768) 39 copie
A sentimental journey through France & Italy: With selections from the journals, sermons & correspondence of Laurence… (1926) 17 copie
Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne, The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, Selected sermons and… (1950) 11 copie
The beauties of Sterne including all his pathetic tales, & most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the… (1782) 9 copie
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Text (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 8 copie
Werkausgabe: Tristram Shandy - Eine empfindsame Reise - Journal für Elisa - Satiren, Erzählungen, Briefe (2018) 5 copie
A sentimental journey through France and Italy,: Together with The journal to Eliza, Letters to Eliza, (Immortal… (1937) 5 copie
The Letters of Laurence Sterne: Part One, 1739–1764 (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (2009) 4 copie
A Eliza ou quatre-vingt-quinze variations sur un thème sentimental suivi de "L'Eloge d'Eliza Draper"… (1987) 4 copie
Letters from Yorick to Eliza 4 copie
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 3 copie
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes: Volume 5 of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne (1996) 3 copie
The Miscellaneous Writings and Sterne's Subscribers, an Identification List (Florida Edition of the Works of… (2014) 3 copie
The works of Laurence Sterne. In ten volumes complete. ... With a life of the author, written by himself. ... Volume 9… (2010) 2 copie
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman comprising the humorous adventures of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.… (1879) 2 copie
The Works of Laurence Sterne - I. the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (The World's Classics (1910) 2 copie
Yorick's meditations upon various interesting and important subjects, viz. Upon nothing. Upon something. Upon the… (2012) 2 copie
Laurence Sterne A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Sylvain Sauvage Heritage Press c.1941 — Autore — 1 copia
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 25 November 2015 1 copia
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (MacDonald Illustrated Classics, Volume 3) (1950) 1 copia
Sentimental Journey, A 1 copia
The Works of Sterne 1 copia
Sternes Letters to His Friends on Various Occasions To Which is Added His History of A Watch Coat (1775) 1 copia
The Works of Laurence Sterne : With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Volume 8. Sermons of Laurence… (1999) 1 copia
Explanatory remarks upon The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy; wherein, the morals and politics of this piece are… (2010) 1 copia
Viatge sentimental (volum I) 1 copia
Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. 1 copia
Noricks Predigten Bd. II 1 copia
Noricks Predigten Bd. I 1 copia
Un romanzo politico 1 copia
Sentimentaalinen matka 1 copia
Dario para Eliza 1 copia
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 1 copia
Tristram Shandy Gentleman 1 copia
Yoriks nachgelaßne Werke 1 copia
Three Books by Laurence Sterne 1 copia
The Complete Works And Life Of Laurence Sterne V3: A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy And The Letters Of… (2007) 1 copia
Selected Prose and Letters II 1 copia
Selected Prose and Letters I 1 copia
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Letters of Laurence Sterne Edition De Luxe Vol. I 1 copia
LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN 1 copia
THE COMPLETE WORKS AND LIFE OF LAURENCE STERNE, VOLUME TWO--THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY IN FOUR VOLUMES,… (1904) 1 copia
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... To which is added The sentimental journey. With illustrations… (1832) 1 copia
The works of Laurence Sterne, comprising Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, and Letters. With a memoir written by… (2011) 1 copia
The Works Of Sterne, Both Volumes (Life & Opinions, Tristam Shandy, Setimental Journey Through France & Italy, Volume I… (1900) 1 copia
Sterne's Sermons 1 copia
Novels 1 copia
Sternes novels 1 copia
Tristram Shandy (abridged) 1 copia
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 24 November 2013 (1992) 1 copia
Viatge sentimental (volum II) 1 copia
Opere correlate
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: English, Irish (1907) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The History of Candide, or, All for the Best, with Zadig, or, Destiny an Oriental History, with A Sentimental Journey… (1933) 5 copie
Anthology of Romanticism Volume Two: Selections From The Pre-Romantic Movement — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Sterne, Laurence
- Data di nascita
- 1713-11-24
- Data di morte
- 1768-03-18
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St. Michael's Churchyard, Coxwold, Yorkshire, England, UK (reinterred 1969)
St. George's Churchyard, Hanover Square, London, England, UK - Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland (birth)
England - Luogo di nascita
- Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- London, England
- Causa della morte
- tuberculosis
- Luogo di residenza
- Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Jesus College, Cambridge University (BA|1737|MA|1740)
- Attività lavorative
- Anglican Cleric (Deacon, 1737|Priest, 1738)
Novelist - Organizzazioni
- Church of England
- Breve biografia
- Laurence Sterne was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1713, son of an army ensign. During his first ten years the family moved from barracks to barracks. At the age of ten, Laurence went to school in Halifax and later went on to study divinity and classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained into the Church of England as a deacon in 1737 after graduating that year. With the help of his uncle, Dr Jaques Sterne (Precentor of York), he began to make a moderately successful ecclesiastical career. He was ordained priest in 1738 and was granted the living of Sutton-on-the-Forest, to which he added six years later the living of Stillington. He married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741 and had a daughter, Lydia – the only one of his children to survive infancy.
Two of his sermons were published in 1747 and 1750, but the publication of a satirical pamphlet in 1759 displayed his talents as a writer.
The pamphlet, A Political Romance, was suppressed; but it gave Sterne the inspiration for a more ambitious work, and he contacted the London bookseller, Robert Dodsley with the draft of one volume of a work entitled The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Unable to secure a guarantee of publication, Sterne revised the work and in 1759 printed and published the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy by paying for it himself and sending it to London.
Tristram Shandy was an immediate success. Sterne became famous virtually overnight and following the exhibition of his portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds became a celebrity within the first few months of the book's release.
Sterne had already published the first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman when he came to Coxwold in 1760. He wrote the next seven volumes of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy while living at Shandy Hall.
His friends celebrated his success as a writer by christening his new home ‘Shandy Hall', the word Shandy being a dialect word for ‘wild, nonsensical, merry or odd'.
Alterations to the house were made by Sterne including the building of a coach house, a cellar and a box-like two-storey brick façade at the west end.
He had been afflicted all his life with illness, and travelled for his health to France, where his wife and daughter took up residence. In the last years of his life he fell in love with Eliza Draper, and wrote A Journal to Eliza after she returned to India and her husband.
Laurence Sterne died in 1768, and was buried three times: once in the graveyard of St. George's, Hanover Square; again when he was recognized after having been disinterred for anatomists; and finally, when development took place at the London burial ground, his skull and a femur were taken to Coxwold and buried outside the church where he was once the preacher.
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Discussioni
the life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy in Folio Society Devotees (Giugno 2022)
Laurence Sterne - Resources and General Discussion in Literary Centennials (Gennaio 2016)
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy in Literary Centennials (Marzo 2014)
Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey in Literary Centennials (Dicembre 2013)
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne - lyzard tutoring keristars in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Aprile 2012)
Tristram Shandy: Books 7-9 in Group Reads - Literature (Febbraio 2012)
Tristram Shandy, Books 4-6 in Group Reads - Literature (Agosto 2011)
Tristram Shandy: Books 1-3 in Group Reads - Literature (Agosto 2011)
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
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- Preferito da
- 69
La prima edizione del romanzo vide la luce nel 1759 e fu un successo nonostante la tecnica narrativa del tutto nuova ed imprevista nella quale la vita e le opinioni di Tristam sono scritte. E’ quella che poi è divenuta nota con l’espressione di "flusso della coscienza". James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Flann O’Brien, Thomas Pynchon ed alla quale anche Vladimir Nabokov e Salmon Rushdie si sono rifatti. Goethe, invece, definì Sterne “un modello in nulla, in tutto un suggeritore ed uno stimolatore”. Aveva forse, secondo lui, già anticipato quello che sarebbero stati poi i moderni siti sociali con il loro inarrestabile flusso confusionale.
Il genere di questo libro è una gioiosa e comica autobiografia romanzata che divenne popolarissima a quei tempi. E' stato trasformato anche in fumetto, come dalla immagine che correda questo post. Ancora oggi attira i lettori nonostante le numerosissime divagazioni quanto mai assurde, impreviste ed imprevedibili su ogni sorta di argomento: etica, teologia, filosofia, sesso, politica. C’è di tutto in questo libro ed ogni occasione è buona per parlarne. Non mancano le pagine bianche, oscuri estratti di dibattiti teologici oltre a rappresentazioni grafiche della linea narrativa.
Sterne aveva 47 anni quando apparve il primo volume della storia. Prima aveva pubblicato solo sermoni. Divenne subito famoso anche se i critici del suo tempo non lo compresero e non lo apprezzarono. Non meraviglia affatto una cosa del genere. Il libro, o meglio la sua tecnica narrativa, era troppo avanti al tempo in cui apparve. Eppure la gente, il pubblico dei lettori apprezzarono queste idee ed opinioni, o meglio il modo con il quale le stesse vennero presentate. Segno evidente del fatto che Sterne aveva saputo comprendere il modo in cui la gente comune pensa dentro di sé e comunica con gli altri. Alla stessa maniera di Mark Zuckenberg.
Un flusso di pensiero solo in apparenza sconnesso. Il critico E. M. Forster ha scritto che “c’è un dio nascosto in “Tristam Shandy”, si chiama “confusione”. Alcuni lettori non sanno accettarla. La confusione è quasi incarnata. Rivelarne le fattezze sgradevoli non era proprio l’intenzione di Sterne e perciò è la divinità che si cela dietro il suo capolavoro, l’esercito della indicibile confusione, l’universo come una castagna bollente”. Non ci vedete un luogo che tutti conosciamo molto bene, che va sotto il nome moderno di FB?
Carlo Levi, ancora più incisivamente ha scritto: “Per fuggire dal tempo bisogna rifugiarsi prima del tempo, nella pura durata. Il tempo, la morte, sono la “pagina nera” che la sagacia del mondo non sa decifrare. Ad essa Sterne contrappone la sua “pagina marmoreggiata”, turbinosa e labirintica: il simbolo caotico di una durata prenatale. E’ in questo labirinto che egli si aggira. Questa è la sua modernità”.
Sterne in effetti non fa altro che anticipare quello che poi compirà, un secolo e mezzo dopo, James Joyce: il rinnovamento totale e la riscoperta del mondo umano attraverso il linguaggio. In questo sta la sua “modernità” che è ancora oggi e sempre “moderna”. La ritroviamo nei siti sociali, appunto. Sempre avanti con la "confusione". Che è poi, tutto sommato, la confusione della vita. Qualcuno la chiamò Babele ...
Laurence Sterne non fu fortunato col suo matrimonio sin dall’inizio e non lo nascose, scrivendone direttamente nel suo libro quando assume la identità di Tristam per descrivere le sue sofferenze d’amore. Dopo la pubblicazione dei primi due volumi la sua salute cominciò a declinare. Ma riuscirà a pubblicare altri sette volumi della storia prima di morire di pleurite a soli 54 anni. Per me, questo libro resta un capolavoro. L’ho letto e riletto diverse volte. In italiano è quanto mai piacevole. Ma in lingua originale è una sfida per chi crede di sapere l’inglese. Provare per credere!… (altro)