While these two were at it hand to fist , Basche , seeing all his People in the Hall in their proper Equipage , sends for the Vicar . Oudart comes with the Holy Water Pot , follow'd by the Catchpole , who as he came into the Hall ...
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...
The classic satirical and ribald tale about the travels of Gargantua and Pantagruel, set in the French countryside
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Guided by the wise counsels given by Brunet in 1852 in his Researches on the old editions of Rabelais, Pierre Jannet published the first three books in 1858; then, when the publication of the Bibliotheque Elzevirienne was discontinued, ...
The introduction explores his individuality while comparing him to Shakespeare, and presents each book to open up the new horizons of Renaissance Europe. This edition also includes a chronology and notes."--BOOK JACKET.
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).
Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production.
The unfettered exuberance of Gargantua and Pantagruel, the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane aspects of existence are at the very heart of Rabelais' ...
... fated, and if your happiness and quietness must end, had it to be by disturbing my king by whom you were established in your power ...
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Франсуа Рабле – один из величайших французских сатириков XVI века, чьи произведения считаются классикой мировой литературы. ...
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...
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 ...
Gargantua and Pantagruel: Selections