Gargantua
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La vie tres horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel jadis composée par M. Alcofribas abstracteur de quinte essence. Livre plein de Pantagruelisme according to 's 1542 edition, or simply Gargantua, is the second novel by François Rabelais, published in 1534 or 1535.
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- Author
- François Rabelais
- First published
- 1900
- Editions
- 20
- Subjects
- Fiction, French Fantasy fiction, French fiction, French literature, Gargantua (Legendary character), Giants, satire, sex
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Key facts
- Book.image
- Pèlerins mangés en salade - Gravure de Gustave Doré pour le chapitre 38 de Gargantua.jpg
- Book.author
- François Rabelais
- Book.name
- Gargantua
- Book.caption
- Pèlerins mangés en salade, scene from chapter 38 of Gargantua imagined by Gustave Doré (engraving, 1873).
- Book.country
- Kingdom of France
- Book.genre
- Novel
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Encyclopedic overview
40 sectionsContents
- Summary
- Prologue
- A fun-loving, humanist youth
- Genealogy, birth, first name
- Childhood and education
- A misguided intelligence
- Sophists and sorbonics
- Humanist teaching
- The Picrocholine war
- Outbreak of hostilities
- Table talk
- Battles and prisoners
- Assault on Roche-Clermault and defeat of Picrochole
- The Abbey of Thélème
- Composition
- Thematic analysis
- The comic mask
- Educational reform
- The body, between the emblem and the carnival
- Moderation of war and strategic thinking
- The Good prince's values and pragmatism
- Origin of the giant
- Celtic folklore and mythology
- Gargantuan chronicles
- Posterity, revivals and inspirations
- Amusement park
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Gargantuan chronicles of the 16th century
- Gargantua
- Early editions
- Modern editions
- Critical works
- General works
- Origin and nature of the giant Gargantua
- Genre, style and narrative
- Humanism, education
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
La vie tres horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel jadis composée par M. Alcofribas abstracteur de quinte essence. Livre plein de Pantagruelisme according to 's 1542 edition, or simply Gargantua, is the second novel by François Rabelais, published in 1534 or 1535.
Similar in structure to Pantagruel (1532), but written in a more complex style, it recounts the years of apprenticeship and the warlike exploits of the giant Gargantua. A plea for a humanist culture against the ponderousness of a rigid Sorbonnard education, Gargantua is also a novel full of verve, lexical richness, and often crude writing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gargantua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.