The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel - Vol I (1532)
A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France which remains a satirical and comic classic. Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty. 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 i…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4067-9197-6
- EAN: 9781406791976
- Produktnummer: 2890813
- Verlag: Pomona Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.2 cm x D4.0 cm 542 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 542
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