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The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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  • Hard-to-Adapt Work: The book is an incredibly metafictional novel about a man trying (and failing) to write his own autobiography, now regarded as a precursor to Postmodernism. It's widely considered to be unable to work as a film adaptation. A 2006 adaptation, A Cock and Bull Story, was favorably received—but rather than a straight adaptation, it added another layer of metafiction, thus becoming a film about two actors trying (and failing) to adapt Tristram Shandy.

Alternative Title(s): Tristram Shandy

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