Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Autor de Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Obras de Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal (1768) 39 copias
A sentimental journey through France & Italy: With selections from the journals, sermons & correspondence of Laurence… (1926) 17 copias
Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne, The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, Selected sermons and… (1950) 11 copias
The beauties of Sterne including all his pathetic tales, & most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the… (1782) 9 copias
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Text (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 8 copias
Sterne's memoirs : a hitherto unrecorded holograph now brought to light in facsimile (1985) 7 copias
Werkausgabe: Tristram Shandy - Eine empfindsame Reise - Journal für Elisa - Satiren, Erzählungen, Briefe (2018) 5 copias
A sentimental journey through France and Italy,: Together with The journal to Eliza, Letters to Eliza, (Immortal… (1937) 5 copias
Letters from Yorick to Eliza 4 copias
The Letters of Laurence Sterne: Part One, 1739–1764 (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (2009) 4 copias
A Eliza ou quatre-vingt-quinze variations sur un thème sentimental suivi de "L'Eloge d'Eliza Draper"… (1987) 4 copias
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes: Volume 5 of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne (1996) 3 copias
The Miscellaneous Writings and Sterne's Subscribers, an Identification List (Florida Edition of the Works of… (2014) 3 copias
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 3 copias
The Works of Laurence Sterne - I. the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (The World's Classics (1910) 2 copias
The works of Laurence Sterne. In ten volumes complete. ... With a life of the author, written by himself. ... Volume 9… (2010) 2 copias
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman comprising the humorous adventures of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.… (1879) 2 copias
Yorick's meditations upon various interesting and important subjects, viz. Upon nothing. Upon something. Upon the… (2012) 2 copias
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
Sentimental Journey, A 1 copia
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (MacDonald Illustrated Classics, Volume 3) (1950) 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 Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 25 November 2015 1 copia
Un romanzo politico 1 copia
Yoriks nachgelaßne Werke 1 copia
Noricks Predigten Bd. II 1 copia
Noricks Predigten Bd. I 1 copia
Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. 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
Per Eliza. Diario e lettere 1 copia
LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN 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
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
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 24 November 2013 (1992) 1 copia
Sterne's Sermons 1 copia
Novels 1 copia
SterneÕs novels 1 copia
Tristram Shandy (abridged) 1 copia
Viatge sentimental (volum II) 1 copia
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The History of Candide, or, All for the Best, with Zadig, or, Destiny an Oriental History, with A Sentimental Journey… (1933) 5 copias
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- Nombre canónico
- Sterne, Laurence
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1713-11-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1768-03-18
- Lugar de sepultura
- St. Michael's Churchyard, Coxwold, Yorkshire, England, UK (reinterred 1969)
St. George's Churchyard, Hanover Square, London, England, UK - Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Ireland (birth)
England - Lugar de nacimiento
- Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England
- Causa de fallecimiento
- tuberculosis
- Lugares de residencia
- Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Educación
- Jesus College, Cambridge University (BA|1737|MA|1740)
- Ocupaciones
- Anglican Cleric (Deacon, 1737|Priest, 1738)
Novelist - Organizaciones
- Church of England
- BiografÃa breve
- 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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Debates
the life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy en Folio Society Devotees (junio 2022)
Laurence Sterne - Resources and General Discussion en Literary Centennials (enero 2016)
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy en Literary Centennials (marzo 2014)
Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey en Literary Centennials (diciembre 2013)
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne - lyzard tutoring keristars en 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (abril 2012)
Tristram Shandy: Books 7-9 en Group Reads - Literature (Febrero 2012)
Tristram Shandy, Books 4-6 en Group Reads - Literature (agosto 2011)
Tristram Shandy: Books 1-3 en Group Reads - Literature (agosto 2011)
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Le podÃa haber salido un churro. De hecho, el libro dedicado al viaje por Francia parece ser un intento de darle un poco de acción al asunto, pero a la gente, por lo visto, lo que le gustaba era ver a estos tipos inalterables y absolutamente al margen de la vida real. El caso es que no deja de ser entretenido. Hombre, tiene sus momentos y a veces uno empieza a hartarse. Se aprecian las influencias de historias de vidas como "Moll Flanders" y el autor declara varias veces su afición por las colecciones de relatos tipo "Decamerón" o incluso (en la mentalidad inglesa del momento) "Don Quijote". Bien, como digo algo bastante original, quizá demasiado largo y un poco demasiado caótico, pero con todo está bastante bien.
El volumen se completa con cuatro sermones que realmente proclamó Sterne en su parroquia y que forman parte de la colección más amplia que publicó medio camuflados con el nombre de uno de sus personajes. Lo bueno que tienen aquà es que contrastan con el libro principal, mostrando cómo el autor sabe perfectamente hilar un discurso "serio" y ortodoxo.
La labor de Javier MarÃas es también muy destacable, intentando traducir o al menos explicar la multitud de juegos de palabras, alusiones (generalmente sexuales) y dobles sentidos que aparecen constantemente. Lo malo es que las notas están al final, según explica él mismo para que el lector, si entiende lo que se dice, no se vea estorbado, pero, en realidad, como casi siempre, mi curiosidad hace que las haya leÃdo todas.… (más)