LAURENCE STERNE

El gran clásico de la literatura universal, novela favorita de Javier Marías, traducida por él mismo.«Una obra rica, ambiciosa, compleja, burlona y poco definible, que valió a su autor en su época tanto fama como denuestos, y en todas las demás épocas hasta hoy conocidas una ardiente admiración: el incomparable ritmo de su ...

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768); but he also published sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. He was ordained as a deac...

"L---d! said my mother, what is all this story about?----A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick----And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard." It is appropriate that the last line of Laurence Sterne's digressive, irreverent narrative should serve as the best introduction to the book. A classic of English literature, "Tristram Shandy" was published i...