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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), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.
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.
Gargantua is a very massive, rapidly spinning black hole. It is orbited by the planets Miller and Mann, as well as an unnamed neutron star. A main sequence star Pantagruel was located within a year's flight of Gargantua along with the habitable planet Edmunds.
Aug 8, 2004 · prepared by Sue Asscher in 1998, from: "MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC. DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL", Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty. and Peter Antony Motteux.
Rabelais’s impertinence led to his writings being repeatedly condemned not only by religious leaders, but also with academics at the prestigious French university, the Sorbonne, who felt Gargantua and Pantagruel was in poor taste—even though we recognize it to be his masterpiece.
Aug 8, 2004 · Gargantua has been proved by some to be of Celtic origin. Very often he is a solar myth, and the statement that Rabelais only collected popular traditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monuments to which is attached the name of Gargantua.
Complete summary of François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
