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Chargement... A Sentimental Journey (original 1768; édition 2002)par Laurence Sterne
Information sur l'oeuvreVoyage sentimental à travers la France et l'Italie par Laurence Sterne (1768)
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Written about a naughty vicar by a naughty vicar. Hysterical the greatest ending ever! ( ) This 250 year old novel was a fictional satire on a more serious non-fictional account of a journey through France and Italy by Sterne's contemporary Tobias Smollett. The satire is in the fact that the traveller here (Yorick, a minor character in Sterne's most famous novel The Life and Adventures of Tristram Shandy) is entirely uninterested in seeing the famous sights, more in meeting and bickering with a motley collection of monks, innkeepers and aristocrats and flirting with various women he meets. Sterne died in 1768 before completing this book, so Yorick never actually makes it to Italy, and the novel finishes with him awkwardly discussing sleeping arrangements with a lady and her maid when there are only two proper beds available. Quite funny, with a few slightly rambling diversions. Interesting fact (while I wait to write my review proper): Laurence Sterne met author Tobias Smollett (of 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' fame) in 1764. Sterne was struck by how critical Smollett was of the places he visited; so when Stern came to write A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, the moaning and griping character of Smelfungus was modelled after Smollett; much in the same way John Cleese's modelled Basil Fawlty after a hotel manager who made the Python's lives miserable during filming some years earlier. It is for this reason that I may one day put pen to paper myself. ;) Ref: http://www.dictionary.com/e/s/12-insults-we-should-bring-back/#smellfungus aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Extrait : "Oh ! ce sujet, dis-je, se traite avec bien plus de m?thode en France. - Quoi ! Vous auriez vu la France ? r?pliqua mon interlocuteur avec vivacit? en se tournant vers moi de l'air le plus civil et le plus triomphant. - Etrange pr?rogative, me dis-je ? moi-m?me, que donne aux gens une travers?e de vingt et un milles maritimes !" Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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