The story of the events which surround the lives of Gargantua and Pantagruel written by this 16th century French humorist and satirist

The Portable Rabelais (The Viking Portable Library)

Francois, Rabelais

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel: From the French of Rabelais

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Thomas Urquhart

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Pantagruel (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)

Poetry

Forgotten Books

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father, Gargantua, (pronounced: [ɡaʁ.ɡɑ̃.ty.a]) and his son Pantagruel ([pɑ̃.ta.ɡʁy.ɛl]) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. The text features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence. Lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters. The censors of the Collège de Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it.[1] 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 gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris 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.[2] Wordplay and risque humor abound in his writing.This is the celebrated translation by Burton Raffel[from Wikipedia article]

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Genre Fiction

W.W.Norton&Company

Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own right, bringing to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French. A final part containing all the rest of Rabelais's known writings, including his letters, supplements the five books traditionally known as Gargantua and Pantagruel. This great comic narrative, written in hugely popular installments over more than two decades, was unsparingly satirical of scholarly pomposity and the many abuses of religious, legal, and political power. The books were condemned at various times by the Sorbonne and narrowly escaped being banned. Behind Rabelais's obvious pleasure in lampooning effete erudition and the excesses of society is the humanist's genuine love of knowledge and belief in the basic goodness of human nature. The bawdy wit and uninhibited zest for life that characterize his unlikely trio of travelers have delighted readers and inspired other writers ever since the exploits of Gargantua and Pantagruel first appeared.

The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais (Centennial Books)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

University of California Press

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' genius. But the author of this fantasia on the lives of a father-and-son pair of giants was one of the most magnificent and magnificently learned products of the Renaissance; and he also represents, as well as any of its other great figures, that era's love of the human body and its exaltation of the human in the face of the divine. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Gargantua and Pantagruel: Introduction by Terence Cave (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Everyman"s Library

As a companion volume to Pantagruel, this new edition of Gargantua continues Rabelais acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. Gargantua introduces Pantagruel s father—another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua s life story from his birth and education to his later life, Rabelais uses the events of the giant s life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor, obsession with food, and scatological wit of Pantagruel, Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.

Gargantua (in French)

Contemporary

French & European Pubns

Oeuvres Completes (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)

Mireille Huchon (Editor)

The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel

Classics

The Franklin Library

'Most noble and illustrious drinkers]]' Thus begins Gargantua and Panatgruel, a grotesque and carnivalesque collection of exuberant, fantastical stories that take us from the ancient world through to the European Renaissance. At the heart of these tall tales are the giant Gargantua and his equally seismic son Pantagruel. Magical adventures, maniacal punning, slapstick humor, erudite allusions and just about any bodily function one can think of, here is quite possibly the zaniest, most risque book ever written.

Humor & Satire

Naxos AudioBooks

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