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* NarrativeFiligree: Arguably the entire book consists of nothing but this.
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* NarrativeFiligree: Arguably the entire book consists of nothing but this. Tristram starts the tale of his life by telling the story of his conception, and then proceeds to get so distracted exploring the context and circumstances surrounding this event that it takes him most of three volumes to get around to the story of his birth.
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''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' is a novel written by Creator/LaurenceSterne in the 18th century. It's famous for being essentially PostModern before its time -- heck, before the modern style was at all common. It employs [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative]] and makes liberal use of [[InnerMonologue stream of consciousness]]; while the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his own life story, he shows an almost pathological inability to stay on-topic and an obsession with explaining context and minute details, getting constantly sidetracked into lengthy digressions, and occasionally even getting sidetracked into another digression in the middle of a digression. This results in, amongst things, Tristram first actually getting around to telling the story of his birth three volumes into the work. As you can probably gleam from this, the humour is very meta; a large portion of the book explores the process of writing that very book.
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''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' is a novel written by Creator/LaurenceSterne in the 18th century. It's famous for being essentially PostModern before its time -- heck, before the modern style was at all common. It employs [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative]] and makes liberal use of [[InnerMonologue stream of consciousness]]; while the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his own life story, he shows an almost pathological inability to stay on-topic and an obsession with explaining context and minute details, getting constantly sidetracked into lengthy digressions, and occasionally even getting sidetracked into another digression in the middle of a digression.digression, which occasionally turn into digressions within digressions within digressions. This results in, amongst things, Tristram first actually getting around to telling the story of his birth three volumes into the work. As you can probably gleam from this, the humour is very meta; a large portion of the book explores the process of writing that very book.
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''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' is a novel written by Laurence Sterne in the 18th century. It's famous for being essentially PostModern before its time -- heck, before the modern style was at all common. It employs [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative]] and makes liberal use of [[InnerMonologue stream of consciousness]]; the narrator gets sidetracked all the time and {{Lampshade}}s just about everything. The humour is very meta; a large portion of the book explores the process of writing that very book.
It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'' by Creator/MichaelWinterbottom with Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/RobBrydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'' by Creator/MichaelWinterbottom with Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/RobBrydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
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''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' is a novel written by Laurence Sterne Creator/LaurenceSterne in the 18th century. It's famous for being essentially PostModern before its time -- heck, before the modern style was at all common. It employs [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative]] and makes liberal use of [[InnerMonologue stream of consciousness]]; while the narrator gets book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his own life story, he shows an almost pathological inability to stay on-topic and an obsession with explaining context and minute details, getting constantly sidetracked all into lengthy digressions, and occasionally even getting sidetracked into another digression in the time and {{Lampshade}}s just about everything. The middle of a digression. This results in, amongst things, Tristram first actually getting around to telling the story of his birth three volumes into the work. As you can probably gleam from this, the humour is very meta; a large portion of the book explores the process of writing that very book.
It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. But some might argue that the work's non-linear nature could potentially lend itself well to a InteractiveFiction or even a video game adaptation. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'' by Creator/MichaelWinterbottom with Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/RobBrydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. But some might argue that the work's non-linear nature could potentially lend itself well to a InteractiveFiction or even a video game adaptation. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'' by Creator/MichaelWinterbottom with Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/RobBrydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Walter Shandy has a theory that one's given name will influence one's personality and fortune, so he wants his son to be called Trismegistus Shandy. Things don't go as planned.
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* ArtisticLicenseLogic: A number of rhetorical fallacies are repeatedly discussed, and their use {{lampshaded}} by the narrator. The book also invents several new Latin terms for fallacious arguments, such as the ''Argumentum Fistulatorum'' (argument of a pipe player -- that is, by whistling).
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It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'' by Creator/MichaelWinterbottom with Creator/SteveCoogan and Rob Brydon, Creator/RobBrydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
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* UnconventionalFormatting: The double-sided black page after the description of Yorick's death, the double-sided marble page after a paragraph declaring that it will be just as inscrutable as the black page, a few squiggles representing the "narrative line" ove over each volume, and both liberal and eccentric use of punctuation, among other novelties.
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It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Story'' by Creator/MichaelWinterbottom with Steve Coogan Creator/SteveCoogan and Rob Brydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Tristram's father considers Tristram to be this, since nobody called Tristram ever did anything good or great. Tristram gets the name by mistake, much to his father's chagrin.
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* SpellMyNameWithABlank: Played with in true Shandean fashion, since this trope was highly popular at the time. Tristram replaces whole sentences (and, on occasion, paragraphs) with asterisks.
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* ProlongedPrologue: Thanks to the NarrativeFiligree, Tristram is finally actually born on page 92.
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** Shandy humself was accidentally circumcised as a boy by a window sash that fell while he was pissing out the window.
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* TheAllegedSteed: The parson Yorick owns one, the result of having several very fine steeds reduced to this state by being constantly loaned to parishoners in need of a doctor miles away over very poor roads.
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** Tristram's uncle Toby sustained a serious wound on the groin at the siege of Namur from a fragment of stone knocked off an outwork by a cannonball.
** Shandy humself was accidentally circumcised as a boy by a window sash that fell while he was pissing out the window.
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* ButIDigress: boy, does the narrator stray off from his topic a lot. Just the birth of the main character takes one volume, and then some.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Some of the narration tends in this direction, such as the end-chapter revelation that, while bringing Dr. Slop his obstetric tools on horseback, Obadiah ''cannot hear himself whistle!''
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Some of the narration tends in this direction, such as the end-chapter revelation that, while bringing Dr. Slop his obstetric tools on horseback, Obadiah ''cannot hear himself whistle!''
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* LemonyNarrator: The TropeMaker. Tristram's narration is notoriously non-linear, full if extraneous detail, and what he finally conveys to the reader is a "cock-and-bull story".
* LongestPrologueEver: Thanks to the Narrative Filligree, Tristam is finally actually born on page 92.
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* LemonyNarrator: The TropeMaker. Tristram's narration is notoriously non-linear, full if of extraneous detail, and what he finally conveys to the reader is a "cock-and-bull story".
* LongestPrologueEver: Thanks to theNarrative Filligree, NarrativeFiligree, Tristam is finally actually born on page 92.
* LongestPrologueEver: Thanks to the
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->''Non enim excursus hic ejus, sed opus ipsum est.'' ("For this is not a digression from it, but the work itself.")
-->-- Epigraph to volumes VII and VIII, taken from the ''Letters'' of Pliny the Younger
''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' is a novel written by Laurence Sterne in the 18th century. It's famous for being essentially PostModern before its time -- heck, before the modern style was at all common. It employs [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative]] and makes liberal use of [[InnerMonologue stream of consciousness]]; the narrator gets sidetracked all the time and {{Lampshade}}s just about everything. The humour is very meta; a large portion of the book explores the process of writing that very book.
It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'', with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
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!!Tropes featured include:
* ArtisticLicenseLogic: A number of rhetorical fallacies are repeatedly discussed, and their use {{lampshaded}} by the narrator. The book also invents several new Latin terms for fallacious arguments, such as the ''Argumentum Fistulatorum'' (argument of a pipe player -- that is, by whistling).
* GroinAttack: Phutatorius accidentally drops a chestnut into his open fly, and HilarityEnsues.
* HowWeGotHere: Does everything with this trope possible. Shandy keeps cutting off his stories and restarting them, bringing up new ones--though many of his conventional digressions follow this trope strictly, he'll also open with the death of a character (who will only return volumes later!), and end his book long before it opens. That Tristram is a strange one.
* LemonyNarrator: The TropeMaker. Tristram's narration is notoriously non-linear, full if extraneous detail, and what he finally conveys to the reader is a "cock-and-bull story".
* LongestPrologueEver: Thanks to the Narrative Filligree, Tristam is finally actually born on page 92.
* NarrativeFiligree: Arguably the entire book consists of nothing but this.
* OneParagraphChapter: A few examples; the book is in nine volumes of twenty or so chapters each, all of which fit, in a modern edition, into five hundred pages or so, so it'd be pretty surprising if there weren't any.
* SillyReasonForWar: There's a chapter-long aside about a war between France and Switzerland which starts because the Swiss want the French Dauphin to be christened Shadrach, Mesech, and Abednago.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The book has an entire chapter devoted to denying that its extensive discussion of noses is in any way a DoubleEntendre. Since it has a later chapter about a traveler with an incredibly long nose that sends everyone into a tizzy (especially the nuns), this is rather difficult to believe.
* UnbuiltTrope: The books is one of the first modern novels in the English language. However, it's incredibly self-aware and openly discusses, lampshades, and subverts tropes associated with the nascent genre and the art of writing itself. Very often, it is regarded as a postmodern work ''avant la lettre''.
* UnconventionalFormatting
* UnInstallment: Chapter 24 of volume 4.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Some of the narration tends in this direction, such as the end-chapter revelation that, while bringing Dr. Slop his obstetric tools on horseback, Obadiah ''cannot hear himself whistle!''
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-->-- Epigraph to volumes VII and VIII, taken from the ''Letters'' of Pliny the Younger
''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' is a novel written by Laurence Sterne in the 18th century. It's famous for being essentially PostModern before its time -- heck, before the modern style was at all common. It employs [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative]] and makes liberal use of [[InnerMonologue stream of consciousness]]; the narrator gets sidetracked all the time and {{Lampshade}}s just about everything. The humour is very meta; a large portion of the book explores the process of writing that very book.
It is widely considered unfilmable because of its meta nature. It was adapted into ''A Cock and Bull Story'', with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, which changes it to a film exploring the process of making that film.
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!!Tropes featured include:
* ArtisticLicenseLogic: A number of rhetorical fallacies are repeatedly discussed, and their use {{lampshaded}} by the narrator. The book also invents several new Latin terms for fallacious arguments, such as the ''Argumentum Fistulatorum'' (argument of a pipe player -- that is, by whistling).
* GroinAttack: Phutatorius accidentally drops a chestnut into his open fly, and HilarityEnsues.
* HowWeGotHere: Does everything with this trope possible. Shandy keeps cutting off his stories and restarting them, bringing up new ones--though many of his conventional digressions follow this trope strictly, he'll also open with the death of a character (who will only return volumes later!), and end his book long before it opens. That Tristram is a strange one.
* LemonyNarrator: The TropeMaker. Tristram's narration is notoriously non-linear, full if extraneous detail, and what he finally conveys to the reader is a "cock-and-bull story".
* LongestPrologueEver: Thanks to the Narrative Filligree, Tristam is finally actually born on page 92.
* NarrativeFiligree: Arguably the entire book consists of nothing but this.
* OneParagraphChapter: A few examples; the book is in nine volumes of twenty or so chapters each, all of which fit, in a modern edition, into five hundred pages or so, so it'd be pretty surprising if there weren't any.
* SillyReasonForWar: There's a chapter-long aside about a war between France and Switzerland which starts because the Swiss want the French Dauphin to be christened Shadrach, Mesech, and Abednago.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The book has an entire chapter devoted to denying that its extensive discussion of noses is in any way a DoubleEntendre. Since it has a later chapter about a traveler with an incredibly long nose that sends everyone into a tizzy (especially the nuns), this is rather difficult to believe.
* UnbuiltTrope: The books is one of the first modern novels in the English language. However, it's incredibly self-aware and openly discusses, lampshades, and subverts tropes associated with the nascent genre and the art of writing itself. Very often, it is regarded as a postmodern work ''avant la lettre''.
* UnconventionalFormatting
* UnInstallment: Chapter 24 of volume 4.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Some of the narration tends in this direction, such as the end-chapter revelation that, while bringing Dr. Slop his obstetric tools on horseback, Obadiah ''cannot hear himself whistle!''
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