Description: Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel I A masterly new translation of Rabelaiss robust scatalogical comedyParodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantuas bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge. 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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Book Title: Gargantua and Pantagruel I
Book Series: Historical
Original Language: French
Item Length: 6 1/4 in
Vintage: Yes
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 9.5 in
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Features: Illustrated, Leather Bound
Topic: Adventures
Item Width: 1 1/2 in
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Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Franklin Library
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
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Edition: Limited Edition, Luxury Edition
California Prop 65 Warning: na
Publication Year: 1979
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: na
Era: 1500s
Illustrator: Gustave dore
Author: Francois Rabelais
Genre: Adventure, World literature & Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 30 oz
Number of Pages: 347
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