![]() ![]() Sterne breaks his promise repeatedly, but does so with such great joy and has such fun that most readers don’t mind. ![]() The implicit promise of an author who titles a book after a character is that you will put the book down having learned something-usually a great deal-about that character. If the previous sentence is not the kind of thing that you find worthy of reading, consider that Tristram Shandy reads something like that paragraph except spread out over hundreds of pages. As with Grandpa Simpson, getting to the point-if, indeed, the point of the book really has anything to do with Tristram Shandy-and, what kind of a name is Tristram, anyway (betcha that half the people who’ve read the book refer to the title character as Tristan)-will be disappointed because the point for Sterne is clearly not to write a book like David Copperfield that tells the life story of a person from birth through death: he wants to have fun. Those wanting to discover much about the title character of Tristram Shandy will be disappointed. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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