Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one...
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Author: Rabelais, François,1490?-1553?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

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Author: Rabelais, François,1490?-1553?
Format: eBook
Language: English

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other thingsa mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personalities and broad generalization, of the comic and the serious, of the impossible and the familiar. Throughout the whole there is such a force of life and thought, such a power of good sense, a kind of assurance so authoritative, that he takes rank with the greatest; and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack him or sing his praises, but you cannot ignore him. He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond and above all others; however few the names you keep, Rabelais' will always remain. We may know his work, may know it well, and admire it more every time we read it. After being amused by it, after having enjoyed it, we may return again to study it and to enter more fully into its meaning. Yet there is no possibility of knowing his own life in the same fashion. In spite of all the efforts, often successful, that have been made to throw light on it, to bring forward a fresh document, or some obscure mention in a forgotten book, to add some little fact, to fix a date more precisely, it remains nevertheless full of uncertainty and of gaps. Besides, it has been burdened and sullied by all kinds of wearisome stories and foolish anecdotes, so that really there is more to weed out than to add. This injustice, at first wilful, had its rise in the sixteenth century, in the furious attacks of a monk of Fontevrault, Gabriel de Puy-Herbault, who seems to have drawn his conclusions concerning the author from the book, and, more especially, in the regrettable satirical epitaph of Ronsard, piqued, it is said, that the Guises had given him only a little pavillon in the Forest of Meudon, whereas the presbytery was close to the chateau. From that time legend has fastened on Rabelais, has completely travestied him, till, bit by bit, it has made of him a buffoon, a veritable clown, a vagrant, a glutton, and a drunkard. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 8166
Author: Rabelais, François
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors


Illustrator: Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883
Translator: Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718, Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660

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