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| Title | : | Gargantua and Pantagruel (Gargantua and Pantagruel #1-5) |
| Author | : | François Rabelais |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1041 pages |
| Published | : | October 26th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1532) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. Literature. European Literature. French Literature. Humor. Fantasy |
François Rabelais
Paperback | Pages: 1041 pages Rating: 3.71 | 13391 Users | 438 Reviews
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The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.
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| Original Title: | La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel |
| ISBN: | 0140445501 (ISBN13: 9780140445503) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140445503,00.html?Gargantua_and_Pantagruel_Francois_Rabelais |
| Series: | Gargantua and Pantagruel #1-5 |
| Characters: | Poliphilo |
| Literary Awards: | Премія «Сковорода» (2005) |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 13391 Users | 438 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books Gargantua and Pantagruel (Gargantua and Pantagruel #1-5)
Thank you, Colin, for reminding me to add this book to my Hate Shelf. Great hammer of Thor, I hate this book. Seriously. It is the most heinous book ever. I can handle the Renaissance humor, although, as my dad put it (we both got stuck reading this book in college classes and our mutual hate of Rabelais binds us together): "There's only so much you can do with codpiece jokes." Well said, Father. Well said.
Good fellow pantagruelists, join us in our feast! Trinck! Read! Pass another pint of tripe! All you pouty agalasts, I fart upon you! To the devil with you, you black-beetles, you dull and dappled drips. Here we make it merry! Pantagruelists of goodreads, unite! You have nothing to lose but the contents of your bowels. Trinck! Laugh! Burst!Properly to give Rabelais his due, to pursue you and persuade you that (as our Good Book says), Pantagrueling is the beginning of wisdom, would require the
I suppose if I list this as one of my influences, that's going to earn me some pointed looks. It's like admitting you like Frank Zappa: you're constantly defending yourself. "But... but the scatological humour conceals a subtle brilliance! You have to look behind it! Huh huh huh, I said 'behind'!"See? There's nothing you can do. You just have to stand up straight and own the ugly, knowing full well that there's an intelligence and humanity there that will inevitably be eclipsed in most readers'
[This is a review of three interrelated books: Moby Dick, Gargantua and Patragruel, and Baktins study, Rabelais and His World. Same review posted in all three places.]In others, the nose grew so much that it looked like the spout of a retort, striped all over and starred with little pustules, pullulating, purpled, pimpled, enameled, studded, and embroidered gules, as you have seen in the cases of Canon Bellybag and of Clubfoot, the Angers physicianOthers grew in the length of their bodies, from
Puts me in mind if Tristam Shandy, which I had held to be sui generis.
A number of GR readers have confessed starting this and not finishing. It has five books with several chapters each. The chapters are short, but they are many: 1st book - 58 chapters; 2nd book - 34 chapters; 3rd book - 52 chapters; 4th book - 67 chapters; and the 5th book has 48 chapters.The secret of my picking up this title (among the hundred or so in my tbr) AND finishing it is that I read this like a hungry donkey. More precisely, I read it like I was a donkey with a carrot in front of me
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