The lives, heroic deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
| Title | The lives, heroic deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
in one vol. |
|---|---|
| Original title | La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel |
| Author | Rabelais; transl. from the French into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart & Peter Le Motteux |
| Publication | Chatto & Windus |
| Size | XXXV, 1021p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
French fiction--Renaissance French fiction--16th century French fiction--Humourous French fiction--Translated into English Legendary beings--Giants French fiction--Picaresque |
| Notes | a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century. The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters). It is considered one of the best translations of any work into English and has been published in 1653. There is a perfect match of temperament between author and translator. Urquhart's learning, pedantry and word-mad exuberance proved to be ideal for Rabelais's work. It is a somewhat free translation, but it never departs from the spirit of Rabelais. The fourth and fifth books wer edited and completed by Peter Anthony Motteux and published after Urquhart's death, in 1694. In part, Motteux suffered for frankly rendering the vulgarity of Rabelais, to a generation of readers less prepared to tolerate it than Urquhart's had been. [wikipedia] |
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