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Author : François Rabelais,Thomas Urquhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614357137
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3271251
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025274706
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025274708
Author : Francois Rabelais
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 939 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465501011
Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other things—a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personalities and broad generalization, of the comic and the serious, of the impossible and the familiar. Throughout the whole there is such a force of life and thought, such a power of good sense, a kind of assurance so authoritative, that he takes rank with the greatest; and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack him or sing his praises, but you cannot ignore him. He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond and above all others; however few the names you keep, Rabelais’ will always remain. We may know his work, may know it well, and admire it more every time we read it. After being amused by it, after having enjoyed it, we may return again to study it and to enter more fully into its meaning. Yet there is no possibility of knowing his own life in the same fashion. In spite of all the efforts, often successful, that have been made to throw light on it, to bring forward a fresh document, or some obscure mention in a forgotten book, to add some little fact, to fix a date more precisely, it remains nevertheless full of uncertainty and of gaps. Besides, it has been burdened and sullied by all kinds of wearisome stories and foolish anecdotes, so that really there is more to weed out than to add.
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:703037261
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:887716
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001856980
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369406613
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number of new and difficult words [...] into the French language". The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne, and, within a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. "Pantagruelism", a form of stoicism, developed and applied throughout, is (among other things) "a certain gaiety of spirit confected in disdain for fortuitous things" (French: une certaine gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites).
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Embark on a Whimsical Adventure with François Rabelais' 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3' Prepare to be enchanted by the larger-than-life characters and outrageous escapades of François Rabelais' masterpiece, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3.' This illustrated edition brings to life the whimsical world of giants, offering readers a delightful blend of satire, humor, and irreverence. Experience the Riotous Exploits of Gargantua and Pantagruel In 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3,' readers are treated to a series of ribald and riotous adventures as Gargantua and Pantagruel journey through a world filled with absurdities and extravagances. From their encounters with strange creatures to their encounters with royalty and scholars, every page is brimming with laughter and merriment. Rabelais' irreverent wit and boundless imagination shine through as he skewers the conventions and hypocrisies of his time, offering readers a rollicking satire of society, politics, and religion. With its larger-than-life characters and outrageous scenarios, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' is a testament to the power of storytelling to entertain, enlighten, and provoke thought. Delve into the Whimsical World of Rabelaisian Satire At its core, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' is a celebration of the absurd and the grotesque, with Rabelais reveling in the excesses and eccentricities of his characters and their world. Through his clever wordplay and irreverent humor, Rabelais invites readers to see the world through a different lens, challenging conventional wisdom and questioning the status quo. With its playful illustrations and witty dialogue, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3' is sure to captivate readers of all ages. Whether you're a fan of classic literature or simply enjoy a good laugh, Rabelais' masterpiece offers a welcome escape from the ordinary and a chance to revel in the absurdities of life. Why 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3' Is a Must-Read for Literature Enthusiasts: Whimsical Adventures: Join Gargantua and Pantagruel on a rollicking journey through a world filled with giants, monsters, and madcap antics. Rabelaisian Satire: Explore the rich tapestry of Rabelais' irreverent humor and biting satire as he skewers the conventions and hypocrisies of his time. Illustrated Edition: Enjoy the whimsical illustrations that bring Rabelais' characters and their world to vivid life, adding an extra layer of delight to this timeless classic. Timeless Entertainment: Lose yourself in the laughter and merriment of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3,' a book that continues to entertain and delight readers centuries after it was first written.Don't miss your chance to join the riotous adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Grab your copy of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3' today and immerse yourself in a world of laughter, satire, and boundless imagination.
Author : Francois Rabelais
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141935782
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.
Author : François François Rabelais
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514755181
Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other things-a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personalities and broad generalization, of the comic and the serious, of the impossible and the familiar. Throughout the whole there is such a force of life and thought, such a power of good sense, a kind of assurance so authoritative, that he takes rank with the greatest; and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack him or sing his praises, but you cannot ignore him. He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond and above all others; however few the names you keep, Rabelais' will always remain.
Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826513069
Francois Rabelais (1483?-1553) is a difficult and often misunderstood author, whose reputation for coarse "Rabelaisian" jesting and "Gargantuan" indulgence in food, drink, and sex is highly misleading. He was in fact a committed humanist who expressed strong views on religion, good government, education, and much more through the mock-heroic adventures of his giants. While most books about Rabelais have relatively little to say about his comedic genius, Enter Rabelais, Laughing analyses the many sides of Rabelais's humor, focusing on why his writing was so hilariously funny to sixteenth-century readers. The author begins by discussing how the Renaissance defined laughter and situates Rabelais in a long tradition of literary laughter. Subsequent chapters examine specific contexts relevant to Gargantua and Pantagruel, beginning with the comic aspects of epic, chronicle, mock-epic, and farce, and proceeding to Renaissance and Reformation humanist satire, rhetoric, medicine, and law. All of these chapters combine information, much of it new, on the humanist message Rabelais wanted to convey to his readers, with an analysis of how he used his wit to reinforce his message. Rarely is a writer's work treated in such illuminating detail. On a broad level, Enter Rabelais, Laughing serves as an excellent introduction to French Renaissance literature and exhibits a remarkably charming and lucid writing style, free of jargon. To Rabelais scholars in particular it offers a thorough and innovative analysis that corrects misconceptions and questions commonly held views.
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fantasy fiction, French
ISBN : 185715181X
Rabelais's hilarious, scabrous and often scatological fantasy of life amonth the monks and friars of sixteenth-century France remains a satirical and comic classic. A great broth of a book in which every conceivable literary form is parodied and every human desire satirized. But under the comedy there is a serious purpose, for Rabelais also enspouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty. The book is here presented in the classic translation by Urquhart and Motteux.
Author : Francois Rabelais
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543035892
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by Fran�ois Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua . The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters).The censors of the Coll�ge de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things" (French: une certaine ga�t� d'esprit confite dans le m�pris des choses fortuites).Rabelais had studied Ancient Greek and he applied it in inventing hundreds of new words in the text, some of which became part of the French language. Wordplay and risqu� humor abound in his writing.The full modern English title for the work commonly known as Pantagruel is The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua and in French, Les horribles et �pouvantables faits et prouesses du tr�s renomm� Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand G�ant Gargantua. The original title of the work was Pantagruel roy des dipsodes restitu� � son naturel avec ses faictz et prouesses espoventables. Although most modern editions of Rabelais's work place Pantagruel as the second volume of a series, it was actually published first, around 1532 under the pen name "Alcofribas Nasier", an anagram of Fran�ois Rabelais.Pantagruel was a sequel to an anonymous book entitled The Great Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua (in French, Les Grandes Chroniques du Grand et Enorme G�ant Gargantua). This early Gargantua text enjoyed great popularity, despite its rather poor construction. Rabelais's giants are not described as being of any fixed height, as in the first two books of Gulliver's Travels, but vary in size from chapter to chapter to enable a series of astonishing images as though these were tall tales. For example, in one chapter Pantagruel is able to fit into a courtroom to argue a case, but in another the narrator resides inside Pantagruel's mouth for 6 months and discovers an entire nation living around his teeth.At the beginning of this book, Gargantua's wife dies giving birth to Pantagruel, who grows to be as giant and scholarly as his father. Rabelais gives a catalog of his reading, mostly humorously-titled books, and judgements in nonsensical legal cases. "The lion's share of Pantagruel's seventh chapter consists of a concluding catalog attributed to the Abbey of Saint-Victor", states Bodemer in his essay, "Rabelais and the Abbey of Saint-Victor Revisited."
