e-book Rabelais (Biographies t. 5) (French Edition)

François Rabelais

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Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. For many in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries he was more talked about than read, a mere name representing at best drunken good humor, at worst coarse literary debauchery. Not only that, but the book was absolutely unintelligible. Showing 1 - 16 of all Results Books: The battles against Picrochole are intended to show Rabelais's hatred of war. Probably only to those who have a touch of masochism like myself. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.

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And heretics were being executed. In Rabelais' writing there is no shying away from the gruesome and tragic realities of life. Much of the humour is dark.

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But the laughter is heroic laughter, a defiance of everything that strives to crush the soul of humanity. The comic imagination is a great winnower of folly. And when folly has been destroyed, what remains is wisdom. Would I recommend reading this book in its entirety?

Probably only to those who have a touch of masochism like myself. But it is a book which lends itself to dipping into and reading individual passages. Along with the wisdom, humour and imagination, you will find the origins of still current popular expressions, e. Sometimes we read a book written in a different era and find we have discovered a dear friend, a fellow-spirit, across the centuries. I feel that way about Rabelais. I share his love for humanity, his contempt for hypocrisy and conformism and his taste for a dirty joke.

And, above all perhaps, his belief in the healthful properties of laughter. It is my test for emotional health. If we often surrender ourselves to a deep belly-laugh, and, especially, if we frequently laugh at ourselves, then we are doing O. A belly-laugh is an expression of generosity and tolerance, completely different from the laughter of cruelty.

And if we can't laugh at ourselves it is because we take ourselves too seriously, thinking either too much of ourselves or too little. I can't remember when I started Gargantua and Pantagruel, but I couldn't make it half way through the book before I had to stop because of the excessive farting and shitting references. I think farting is just as funny as the next guy, but after a while it just gets old.

Not only that, but the book was absolutely unintelligible.

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I'm not a great fan of nonlinear plots and this book was definitely one of those. I also failed to see any esoteric value to the book at all, except for the Abbey of Th I can't remember when I started Gargantua and Pantagruel, but I couldn't make it half way through the book before I had to stop because of the excessive farting and shitting references. I also failed to see any esoteric value to the book at all, except for the Abbey of Thelma reference. This is one of the most celebrated titles in the history of literature. This is a lovely edition of all five volumes of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

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