Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel is a series of novels by François Rabelais, whose five volumes in 1532, 1534, 1545, 1552 and 1564 appeared; especially the first two volumes were very successful.

The two protagonists Pantagruel, a young giant, and his father Gargantua today pantagruélique especially not by adjectives ( " avoir un appétit pantagruélique " - a pantagruelischen have appetite ) and gargantuesque ( "un repas gargantuesque " - a gargantuan feast ) is known. The first written Pantagruel, had initially planned not to continue to Rabelais, is titled Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très Renommé Pantagruel, Roi des Dipsodes, fils du grand Gargantua géant. Composés nouvelle ment par maître Alcofrybas Nasier (Eng. " The terrible and horrific adventures and exploits of the highly famous Pantagruel, King of Dipsoden, son of the great giant Gargantua New compiled by Master Alcofrybas Nasier. " - An anagram of Francoys Rabelais). The work was at once so as published under a pseudonym witty parody of the genre romance of chivalry and thus as a comedic recognizable.

After the success of Rabelais pushed rapidly under the same pseudonym and in a similar style to Gargantua after, entitled La Vie très HORRIFIQUE du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel (Eng. " The very terrible life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel "). The much later printed other volumes were published under his real name and carry the empty title Le tiers livre, Le quart livre and Le livre cinquième (engl. " The third book ," " The Fourth Book ", " The fifth book "). You also no longer stand as their predecessors in the tradition of chivalric novel parodies.

Content

Pantagruel

The full title for the generally known as Pantagruel book is " The terrible and horrific adventures and exploits of the highly renowned Pantagruel, King of Dipsoden, son of the great giant Gargantua. " ( Was the original title of the work Pantagruel roy of dipsodes Restitue à son naturel avec ses faictz et prouesses espoventables ). Although some modern editions of the works of Rabelais ' Pantagruel classify as a second band of the cycle, it was actually published first. But Pantagruel was actually the successor of anonymous written book called The Great Chronicle of excellent and enormous giant Gargantua (French Grandes chroniques du grand Gargantua et enormous géant ). This early Gargantua text, poorly structured, enjoyed great popularity.

Rabelais's giants are not set to a specific size, such as in the first two volumes of Gulliver's Travels, but they change their size from chapter to chapter, so the story seems like a tall tale. For example, Pantagruel fits in a chapter while in a courtroom, but at other times the narrator lives six months long in Pantagruel's mouth and discovers a nation that lives on its teeth.

Gargantua

After the success of Pantagruel Rabelais revised its source material and created a more refined account of the life and deeds of Pantagruel's father in the very terrible life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel (French: La vie très horrificque du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel ), known as Gargantua. The volume concludes with the famous chapters on the Abbey Thélème (Chapter 52-57 ). Rabelais designs in satirical sharpening a monastery as topsy-turvy world: Here, young men and women live together, wearing of costly apparel, entertain with games and festivities, and can marry any time to leave the abbey. People live in total freedom, "Your entire Order usually consisted of a single paragraph, which read: 'Do what you like " ( " Fay ce que vouldras "). The descriptions of the Abbey Thélème thus represent a social utopia, which establishes that " free men of noble birth, good knowledge and raised in respectable society ... flee vice, which engine is called honor." The partly spans detailed descriptions of the architecture and clothing also provide urban and aesthetic ideas, which can be interpreted as a parody of the Utopian Literature course.

The third book

In the last three books Rabelais returns to the story of Pantagruel. The third book Pantagruel (French Le tiers- livre de Pantagruel, original title Le tiers livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel ) concerns Pantagruel and his friend Panurge, which does nothing else but about the pros and cons of a marriage on the head to break without coming to a conclusion. The book ends with the beginning of a voyage to find the oracle of the divine bottle, which is to clarify the question of the marriage.

The fourth book

The voyage lasts throughout the fourth book of Pantagruel (in French Le quart - livre de Pantagruel, original title Le quart livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel ). Pantagruel encounters many strange people there.

The fifth book

At the end of the fifth book Pantagruel (French: Le livre de Pantagruel - cinquième. Cinquiesme original title Le dernier et livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel ) which was published posthumously in about 1564, is the divine bottle finally found it.

Reception

The success of Rabelais ' based on how he, bawdy humor and pedantic erudition, word games and real and fictitious quotes funny used mixed on it on the style level playful irony and sarcasm; on the structural level, it combines most concise, always pushing the boundaries towards the fantastic and grotesque border action sequences with longer narrator and character speeches. The satirical intent is not to be overlooked, even if it is hidden, eg behind a played naivety. Rabelais was also attacked because each after the appearance of the volumes of the conservative theologians of the Sorbonne who saw the trailer of an unorthodox, non-denominational ecumenism in Rabelais.

Trivia

The amusement park Mirapolis in Paris, which was from 1987 to 1991, had a 35 m high, walk Gargantuan figure.

The French singer France Gall sang Gargantua and Pantagruel in the song Gare toi ... Gargantua, published in 1968 on their album.

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