Which 18th-century novel is often cited as a pre-postmodern, proto-metafictional work due to its endless digressions and authorial intrusions?
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Correct answer: Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne’s 'Tristram Shandy' subverts almost every novelistic convention of its time. It features blank pages, diagrams, and a narrator who cannot get past his own birth due to constant storytelling interruptions.
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