Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Category - Fiction / Classics
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 3 days ago
Ships From - New York
Est. Publication Date - Feb 1974
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Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantuas bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.
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Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
ISBN: 9780140440478
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This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story i...
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