Gargantua and Pantagruel - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0140445501 ISBN 13: 9780140445503

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2025

Riassunto

Le abbaglianti ed esuberanti storie morali di rabelais (c. 1471-1553) espongono le follie umane con il loro umorismo malizioso e spesso osceno, mentre intrecciano il realistico con la fantasia carnevalesca per farci guardare il mondo con occhi nuovi. Gargantua raffigura un giovane gigante, ridotto a una ridicola follia da un'educazione impartita dall'ignoranza paterna, da vecchie megere e professori sifilitici, che viene salvato e trasformato in un colto cavaliere cristiano. E in pantagruel e nei suoi tre seguiti, rabelais ha parodiato storie alte di cavalleria e satireggiato la legge, la teologia e il mondo accademico per ritrarre il figlio libresco di gargantua che diventa un socrate rinascimentale, divinamente guidato nella sua saggezza, e il suo idiota compagno egoista panurge.

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Informazioni sull'autore

François Rabelais was born at the end of the fifteenth century. A Franciscan monk turned Benedictine, he abandoned the cloister in 1530 and began to study medicine at Montpellier. Two years later he wrote his first work, Pantagruel, which revealed his genius as a storyteller, satirist, propagandist and creator of comic situations and characters. In 1534 he published Gargantua, a companion to Pantagruel, which contains some of his best work. It mocks old-fashioned theological education, and opposes the monastic ideal, contrasting it with a free society of noble Evangelicals. Following an outburst of repression in late 1534, Rabelais abandoned his post of doctor at the Hotel-Dieu at Lyons and despite Royal support his book Tiers Livre was condemned. His last work, and his boldest, Quart Livre was published in 1551 and he died two years later. For the last years of his life Rabelais was persecuted by both religious and civil authorities for his publications. His genius however was recognized in his own day and his influence was great.

Dr. M. A. Screech is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of University College London; he long served on the committee of the Warburg Institute as Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature in London, until his election to All Souls in 1984. He is a Renaissance scholar of international renown. His books include Montaigne and Melancholy, as well as Rabelais and (on Erasmus) Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly; all are acknowledged to be classic studies in their fields.

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The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140445501
• ISBN 13: 9780140445503
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 1
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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