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Gargantua and Pantagruel

By Francois Rabelais, M. A. Screech (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780140445503

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A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy

Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who bContinue

A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy

Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua's bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.

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  • A Brazilian from Pope Calixtus

    Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, translated by MA Screech 1,041pp, Penguin, £16.99 The arsehole is much maligned in modern times. It actually fits very neatly between two buttocks and fulfils a variety of roles - faecal, sexual, melodio ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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