Pantagruel And Gargantua: Newly Translated and Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Softcover

Rabelais, François

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847497403 ISBN 13: 9781847497406

Verlag: Alma Books, 2018

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Andrew Brown... creates a wholly credible, modern, reinvigorated Rabelais who still jumps off the page after more than 450 years. - TLS

Reseña del editor

With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life. But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society. Translated by critically-acclaimed translator Andrew Brown, this edition contains a wealth of material which will make this edition ideal for students

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alma Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1847497403
• ISBN 13: 9781847497406
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256