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Is this proto-meme/lit/?

>> No.7928207

Yes. It's a must read. So ahead of its time. Criminally underrated.

>> No.7928215

Very good use of climactic resources in the polar opposites of rhyzomian milleages. The body without organs, semiotic, symbols, rhyzomes, lines of difference intrinsic to sheaths of fabric twisting and turning. Great book.

>> No.7929324

What the fuck is up with all the dashes in this book? Like, every sentence has ten dashes shoved into it and they're all of different lengths for no apparent reason.

>> No.7929331

Freakin' funny book

>> No.7929340 [DELETED] 

>>7928215
Did you really throw yourself out the window or were you just leaning too far for air?

>> No.7929507
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>>7929324
Here's an article on that:
http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/Bibliomania!/Moss.pdf

When the book was published direct speech was more often indicated with a dash than with quotation marks.

At the time dashes were also used indicate when a word of part of a word was suppressed
>Good G—!

Sterne sometimes mixes these two uses together.

The dash also gives a more light and conversational feel — interruption upon interruption — than does the formal finality of the 'period' or full stop.


In general, it's easy to kill the book with academic frameworks — the main thing is that the characters are great, especially the father, uncle toby and the author himself.

>> No.7929569

>>7928207
>Tristram Shandy underrated
just because it never gets mentioned in this shitty pretentious board it doesn't mean it's underrated in real life

>> No.7929672

>>7929569
This is real life.

>> No.7929685

>>7929569
>>7929672
Agree with both. I see it mentioned quite often either way.

>> No.7929751

>boy gets circumcised by a falling window pane
>art

>> No.7930765

>>7929507
>Not naming your file "Triftram Fhandy"

>> No.7930864

>>7927924
Tristram Shandy is great, but quite honestly there is a lot of literal filler in here, too.

>> No.7931118

>>7927924
It's one of the first postmodern novels, predating Dujardin's by more than 200 years. Extremely creative, at times even laugh-out-loud funny. I liked it.

>> No.7931122

>>7929569
eighteenth century lit is not as popular as it once was

it's true that a lot of people have read Sterne—but it's also a smaller group than it would have been sixty years ago.