Sterne: Tristram Shandy

by Wolfgang Iser (Editor), David Henry Wilson (Translator)

Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. Wolfgang Iser shows how Sterne exploits the philosophy of his day and its cognitive deficiencies, using digression, humour and play to convey experience of subjectivity, and implicitly to expose the traditional concept of the self.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published April 28, 1988