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Pantagruel and Gargantua
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Pantagruel and Gargantua : Newly Translated and Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens)

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Evergreens
ISBN-10 1847497403
ISBN-13 9781847497406
Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Imprint Alma Classics
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 20th, 2018
Print length 352 Pages
Weight 384 grams
Dimensions 17.40 x 13.20 x 2.20 cms
Ksh 1,700.00
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These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.

With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life.

But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as François Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.


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