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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence. The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things".

Rabelais had studied Ancient Greek and he applied it in inventing hundreds of new words in the text, some of which became part of the French language. Wordplay and risqué humor abound in his writing.
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PublisherPergamonMedia
Release dateApr 8, 2015
ISBN9783956702235
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François Rabelais

François Rabelais est un écrivain français humaniste de la Renaissance, né à la Devinière à Seuilly, près de Chinon, en 1483 ou 1494 selon les sources, et mort à Paris le 9 avril 1553.

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