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The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (or just Gargantua and Pantagruel) is a novel written by François Rabelais (under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier). Written in the 16th century and first released in 1532, it tells of the bawdy, satirical, and vulgar adventures of its titular characters.

Characters[]

  • Gargantua
  • Pantagruel
  • Panurge

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Publisher's summary[]

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.

Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.

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Works discussing "The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel"[]

Non-fiction[]

  • The Literature Book, which puts forth Gargantua and Pantagruel as an example of Renaissance humanism.

See also[]

Title Author Release date Significance
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605-1615 A similarly comedic precursor to postmodernism
Ploughman of Bohemia Johannes von Tepl 1460 A dialogue with similar humanistic themes
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne 1759-1767 A similarly comedic precursor to postmodernism
Moby-Dick, or the Whale Herman Melville 1851 A novel somewhat inspired by Gargantua and Pantagruel
Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle 1833-1834 Another precursor to postmodernism
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1824 Another precursor to postmodernism

Sources[]

  • Wikipedia
  • Goodreads