The great bulk of the narrative content of this remarkably rambling and digressive work is made up of events and facts dating from the fifty years leading up to Tristram's birth in November of 1718, so that in spite of the pervasive presence of the first-person pronoun in the text, Tristram Shandy remains, to an overwhelming extent, a heterodiegetic analepsis. Reis, trans., Russian Formalist Criticism: F (.)Δ’The first-time reader of Tristram Shandy, no less than the Sterne specialist, can readily appreciate to what degree the twisted walking stick might serve as an emblem of the book, for although Tristram is supposedly telling his own story-his "life and opinions," as the complete title would have us believe-astonishingly little is said about Tristram himself. 4 Needless to say, the bibliography on these various aspects of Tristram Shandy is extensive.3 See Robert Alter, " Sterne and the Nostalgia for Reality," in: Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self- (.). 2 Tristram's low profile as a character in the novel puts him on a footing comparable with the evasi (.).
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