12 Facts About Tristram Shandy

Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, known as Tristram Shandy, is a novel by Laurence Sterne, inspired by Don Quixote.

In view of the previous accidents, Tristram Shandy's father decreed that the boy would receive an especially auspicious name, Trismegistus.

Finally, as a toddler, Tristram Shandy suffered an accidental circumcision when Susannah let a window sash fall as he urinated out of the window because his chamberpot was missing.

Tristram Shandy relies heavily on his reader's close involvement to the text and their interpretations of the non-traditional plot.

Tristram Shandy was highly praised for its originality, and nobody noticed these borrowings until years after Sterne's death.

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Tristram Shandy gives a ludicrous turn to solemn passages from respected authors that it incorporates, as well as to the consolatio literary genre.

Tristram Shandy's text is filled with allusions and references to the leading thinkers and writers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The frequent references to Rocinante, the character of Uncle Toby and Sterne's own description of his characters' "Cervantic humour", along with the genre-defying structure of Tristram Shandy, which owes much to the second part of Cervantes' novel, all demonstrate the influence of Cervantes.

Tristram Shandy has been seen by formalists and other literary critics as a forerunner of many narrative devices and styles used by modernist and postmodernist authors such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Carlos Fuentes, Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie.

Tristram Shandy has been adapted as a graphic novel by cartoonist Martin Rowson.

Tristram Shandy has been translated into many languages, including German, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Czech, Slovene, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Norwegian, Finnish .

Tristram Shandy was adapted by Martin Pearlman in 2018 as a comic chamber opera, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.