Shandean

Milan Kundera once said that all modern literature descends from either Richardson's Clarissa or Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and if Narayan is India's Richardson then Desani is his Shandean other.

Not quite all about All About H. Hatterr 2007

Milan Kundera once said that all modern literature descends from either Richardson's Clarissa or Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and if Narayan is India's Richardson then Desani is his Shandean other.

A Different Stripe: 2007

Personally, I thought “Cock and Bull” while true to the Shandean spirit in some ways, was more about itself than that spirit or that book, so I give it a thumbs down.

Two from the toob « Jahsonic 2008

Tristram Shandy, that I was myself more Shandean than I really ever was ....

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

But here he took a road of his own, setting up another Shandean hypothesis upon these corner-stones they had laid for him; — and which said hypothesis equally stood its ground; whether the subtilty and fineness of the soul depended upon the temperature and clearness of the said liquor, or of the finer net-work and texture in the cerebellum itself; which opinion he favoured.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

But here he took a road of his own, setting up another Shandean hypothesis upon these corner-stones they had laid for him; — and which said hypothesis equally stood its ground; whether the subtilty and fineness of the soul depended upon the temperature and clearness of the said liquor, or of the finer net-work and texture in the cerebellum itself; which opinion he favoured.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

So that betwixt both, I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good-humoured Shandean book, which will do all your hearts good — — And all your heads too, — provided you understand it.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

So that betwixt both, I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good-humoured Shandean book, which will do all your hearts good — — And all your heads too, — provided you understand it.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Jeffrey Eugenides has a Shandean take on the story of the narrator's origins, going back to his own conception.

O Ye Laurels Lodge, David 1996

It is only in a Shandean spirit that my matter can be approached.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955