![]() ![]() With Lesser as helper, confusion yields to illumination and allows readers to savor this quirky semi-autobiogrqphical novel. ![]() Alvarez - in Georgian raiment as well as a trail marker in English-language literature. Laurence Sterne anticipates modernists Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien.Irishmen all.and is himself a modern absurdist - a point made clear in a useful Penguin Classics introduction by A. A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne Novel English 24/11/18 Synopsis When Yorick sets off for France on a whim, he produces no ordinary travelogue. I recommend having the book in hand as you listen to the narration, which Lesser seems to have carefully thought out, for the sake of clarity and appropriate emphasis, parsing Sterne's diction to a "t." It seems to me impossible that listeners might continue to track the ceaseless Sternian digressions competently while Sterne drags his narrative down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, emerging or not, somewhat later. Sterne is a hard read, even in this short work, a result of his virtual stream-of-consciousness into layers and layers of digressions and caesuras within digressions and caesuras that sometimes reach an end or conclusion.or not, drifting away the the vault of incomplete digressions. from the peculiar mind of Laurence Sterne and brilliantly realized, again, by a voice genius who makes Sterne accessible to the bewildered masses: Anton Lesser, better known to many as GoT's Qyburn, the unethical former maester, notable for his illegal experimentations involving humans both live and dead. ![]()
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