Tristam Shandy, ou l'histoire de l'ecriture
- Autores: Marie-Hélène Chabut
- Localización: La franc-maçonnerie: Dix-Hutiéme siécle 1987, 1987, ISBN 2130414532, págs. 391-410
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
Tristram Shandy is a sharp parody of the historical function of the narrator and his claim to be telling the truth. In addition, the chronological disorder and the confusion of the different levels of narration and «story » show that the latter is not self-evident but is the totally arbitrary production of the narrator. These tactics finally give the impression that it is an order «chosen » by «I ». Finally, the text's insistence on itself as an object in the process of fabrication creates the illusion of a present of the narration in process. Thus we move from the «traditional » realism of a story to a very coherent one of its telling and reception. The story becomes that of the writing and reading of the tale. Different readings of Tristram Shandy are also discussed, which show the power of this «new realism » on the most sensitive readers.
