Written from 1759 to 1769 in seven volumes it.

Tristram shandy marbled page. This famed marbled page has inspired a great many homages in the quarter millennium since its creation but none lovelier than emblem of my work a celebration of the 250th anniversary of sterne s visionary masterpiece presenting 170 artists with the opportunity to reimagine and reinterpret the iconic page 169. Thereby we lose the point which is that each of its first readers looked at a completely unique design. The life and opinions of tristram shandy gentleman is one of the weirdest books in the western canon. 5 and 6 1762.

Each was sent a blank template of the page and invited to create within its bounds the emblem of his or her own work. In modern paperback editions of tristram shandy the marbled page is both monochrome as opposed to the vividly crowded colours of the original and uniform every copy of a penguin classics version has the same marbled page photographically copied from an 18th century original. As will appear those readers who know sterne s novel only from a modern paperback edition have never seen that marbled page as sterne intended it to be seen. Laurence sterne misuses the stuff novels are made of the ink the symbols the pages the fly leafs to make readers aware of the materiality of the book.

The life and opinions of tristram shandy gentleman also known as just tristram shandy is a novel by laurence sterne. The original marbled page in tristram shandy. It is fitting that your copy of tristram shandy is different from mine since your subjective experience of the book is different in most contemporary editions of the book the marbled page is. Sterne s marbled page is pretty clever and the 169 contributors have produced some wonderful interpretations of the meaning of the emblem of my work said patrick wildgust curator of the show.

Abstract suggests a possibility of loss of the mystical meaning of the marbled page in laurence sterne s tristram shandy to succeeding generations along with the description of the process by which the marbled paper is produced. It was published in nine volumes the first two appearing in 1759 and seven others following over the next seven years vols. Tristram shandy s up the page shockingly audacious even today tristram shandy was printed in installments from 1759 to 1769 about two hundred and fifty years ago. Laurence sterne s tristram shandy full title.

The blank page the life and opinions of tristram shandy gentleman vol vi p.

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