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Kiadó | Oxford University Press |
Kötés | Fűzött |
ISBN | 9780199537181 |
Nyelv | Angol |
Nyelvi szint | C2-anyanyelvi |
Sorozat | Oxford World\'s Classics |
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to
France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is
nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue