A Sentimental Journey

副标题: Through France And Italy By Mr. Yorick (Dover Thrift Editions)

ISBN: 9780486434735

出版社: Dover Publications

出版年: 2004-04

页数: 112

定价: USD 2.50

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

A Sentimental Journey tells the story of Mr. Yorick's travels through France and Italy and parodies contemporary travel works, most notably those by Smollett. Celebrated in its day as the forefather of "a school of sentimental writers", this work has outlasted its many imitators because of the

humor and mischievous eroticism that pervade Mr. Yorick's travels.

On his journey to France and Italy, Yorick gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as

his peers with exploring the nature of virtue and unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling.

This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr. Yorick as well as The Journal to Eliza and A Political Romance, both works that shed light on A Sentimental Journey.

作者简介

劳伦斯?斯特恩（Laurence Sterne，1713—1768），18世纪英国小说大师。他生活于英语小说刚刚开始成型的时期，但他又打破了小说创作的一切规则和束缚，他上承拉伯雷和塞万提斯的伟大传统，下启普鲁斯特、詹姆斯?乔伊斯、弗吉尼亚?伍尔夫等第一批现代主义大师，被誉为意识流乃至整个现代派小说的鼻祖，甚至是生活于18世纪的第一位后现代小说家。

斯特恩宁愿走大脑那弯弯曲曲的小路，而不愿请教导游手册，走它指引的平坦大道，就这方面来说，唯独斯特恩属于我们这一代。就斯特恩关心无声胜于语言而论，他是现代派的先驱。由于这些原因，他跟我们当代人的关系，比他的伟大的同时代人理查逊和菲尔丁跟我们的关系要亲密得多。——弗吉尼亚?伍尔夫

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