![]() Much of the pleasure to be had from this wonderfully engaging book comes from his unmatched ability to extract random details from the chaos of experience to create comic turns imbued with Feeling. Sterne calls his fine sensitivity to body language (as we now term it) "translation". "There is not a secret so aiding to the progress of sociality, as to get master of this short hand, and to be quick in rendering the several turns of looks and limbs with all their inflections and delineations, into plain words." Let us say: an exercise in the infinitely comic. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then fizzles out in mid-sentence - so, a plotless novel lacking a beginning, a middle or an end. Librivox recording of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne.Īfter the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. ![]()
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