L. Sterne
Publisher: R. and J. Dodsley
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When I came across The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, I realized that the book that could be the first example of a coming-of-age novel got so lost in the redundancy of information to become a meta-fiction, a novel raised to the nth in order to advantage the digressions tangled twist. Each living moment requires much more time to tell it, that’s why the novel pages would tend to be endless...
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