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Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires—is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.
Parts of Gargantua and Pantagruel were banned upon their publication, and the whole of it has suffered in our century at the hands of translators too timid to say in modern English what Rabelais so frankly wrote in Middle French. Master translator Burton Raffel unapologetically brings to life in today's American idiom all the gusto of Rabelais's language. Raffel succeeds in making Gargantua and Pantagruel, so long a great unread classic, accessible and alive to the contemporary reader.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel,Francois Rabelais,Burton Raffel,W. W. Norton & Company,0393308065,Classics,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Rabelais, Francois,,Rabelais, Franðcois,,Translations into English,ca. 1490-1553?,19th century fiction,French,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries
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