Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… author of the ongoing Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , and his reputation, already well established in England, had reached the continent. He was welcome in the salons of Paris; Diderot recognized in him ‘le Rabelais des … of author and fictional character, one fostering the other. The novelist was thus a celebrity, both in France and in England, through complex interactions between literary fiction and social life. Image Legend Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of … although, since Tristram Shandy had yet to be translated into French, this was as much due to news of his fame in England, as to first-hand knowledge of his writings. Diderot proved an exception, as Sterne gifted him the six published …
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