Reviews for Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

The average rating for Sentimental Journey through France and Italy based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-03-24 00:00:00 Eric Bernard This is pure character-driven, plotless fun. It's a travel tale in which the first-person narrator drifts from incident to incident and it is always the idiosyncratic power of his voice that carries us along. The text is not easy, loaded with archaisms and French expressions as it is. Light readers steer clear. Endnotes are copious--and essential--about two or three to a page. If you loved The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, as I did, this should also satisfy. The prose here seems lighter than in that previous novel, probably because there are far fewer textual games played. (These can't of course legitimately be called post-modern, as some blurbers do here.) The only problem is that it's too short. Sterne died before he could complete his plan. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-11 00:00:00 Ricco Marai "I had left London with so much precipitation, that it never entered my mind that we were at war with France; and had reached Dover, and looked through my glass at the hills beyond Boulogne, before the idea presented itself; and with this in its train, that there was no getting there without a passport. Go but to the end of the street, I have a mortal aversion for returning back no wiser than I set out; and as this was one of the greatest efforts I had ever made for knowledge, I could less bear the thoughts of it..." getting there without a passport, goodness, now that's a nice idea.