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The preface took on the tone of a non-fictional introduction and analysis of the phony story to come, complete with endorsements by figures sporting respectable titles and academic degrees. The only thing is that this prefatory material was every bit as much pure fiction as the story they were intended to lend some kind of realistic credence to. Laurence Sterne took to writing Tristram Shandy in part as a way to expose the inescapable reality that novels simply could not be realistic. Not in any real sense. And so, Tristram Shandy shuns, evades, challenges and parodies conventions of realistic expectations in a number of creative and entertaining ways. The most immediately obvious flouting of novelistic conventions is the means by which the familiarity with existing birth-to-death style novels are upended. A novel titled Tristram Shandy would instantly result in the perception among readers of the time that they were going to open the book to read of Tristram's birth and close the book either upon his death or a major point in his later life at which all travails had been finally put behind him.
Tristram Shandy fulfills the first part of this covenant, but almost instantly fails to follow through. The fact is that Tristram spends 90% of the time telling history story going on off on ever more unrelated digressions focusing on the wild adventures experienced by various forbears. The reader eventually learns more about the Shandy family than readers of other book ever learn about their titular character, but the knowledge gained of Tristram himself is in shockingly short supply. As readers make their way through the digressive nature of Tristram Shandy, they are confronted with a inventive literary smackdowns of convention that many young people might find surprisingly familiar. The experimental nature of the novel inspired the stream-of-consciousness fiction that marked the 1920s, but the digressions, blank pages, change in fonts, diagrams and robust use of symbols makes reading Tristram Shandy an experience more akin to reading a blog or following someone on Facebook or Twitter than it does to trying to work one's way through Finnegans Wake.
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