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Gargantua and Pantagruel. The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel ( French: Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel ), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres ( Five Books ), [1] is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.
- Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel
- François Rabelais ("Alcofribas Nasier")
- c. 1532 – c. 1564
- Satire
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, collective title of five comic novels by François Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564.The novels present the comic and satiric story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and various companions, whose travels and adventures are a vehicle for ridicule of the follies and superstitions of the times.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Aug 8, 2004 · Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660. Title. Gargantua and Pantagruel. Credits. Produced by Sue Asscher and David Widger. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The original Project Gutenberg edition of this ebook was a text file. prepared by Sue Asscher in 1998, from: "MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC.
Chapter 1.IX.—The colours and liveries of Gargantua. Gargantua’s colours were white and blue, as I have showed you before, by which his father would give us to understand that his son to him was a heavenly joy; for the white did signify gladness, pleasure, delight, and rejoicing, and the blue, celestial things.
Gargantua and Pantagruel. Rabelais’s purpose in the four books of his masterpiece was to entertain the cultivated reader at the expense of the follies and exaggerations of his times. If he points lessons, it is because his life has taught him something about the evils of comatose monasticism, the trickery of lawyers, the pigheaded persistence ...
Good writing, but particularly good satire and social commentary, stays with you and reshapes the way you see the world. The text features two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and their adventures. There is ample word play and crudeness, but I want you to focus, as famous literary critic Mikail Bakhtin did, on the intersection of ...
