![]() ![]() Both men have a sense of humour, an eye for a jest, and an ability to grasp opportunities, and they are men who are able to see themselves and their own weaknesses. It is not the usual tourist vivenda that interest the two men, but rather encounters with people, and women in particular. They follow very much the same route, and they see themselves as different from the average English traveller they are open-minded and unprejudiced. But first to why much seems to be the same.īoth books' protagonists, Tristram and Yorick, are middle-aged men who travel alone from Dover to the south of France. The obvious difference is of course that Book 7 of Tristram Shandy is part of a larger whole, consisting of nine volumes, whereas A Sentimental Journey is a novel of its own. So my main purpose with comparing and contrasting the two texts is to reveal the differences. There is no doubt that Sterne s second and last novel is built on or inspired by Book 7, but there are nevertheless in my opinion important differences that clearly make the two projects two distinct works of art. AbstractI have chosen to compare Laurence Sterne's Book 7 of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey because I found it challenging that several critics have referred to the two texts as quite similar, even to the extent that the first could be seen as a draft and the latter an elaboration of the first. ![]()
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