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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 |
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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 |
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- Wikipedia
- Goodreads