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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by Francois Rabelais (Author), Burton Raffel (Translator) "Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad-or contagious..." (more)
Key Phrases: shit stool, silver nymph, gold nymph, Brother John, Imported Goods, Grabby Puss (more...)
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Book Description
Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times—from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires—is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.

Parts of Gargantua and Pantagruel were banned upon their publication, and the whole of it has suffered in our century at the hands of translators too timid to say in modern English what Rabelais so frankly wrote in Middle French. Master translator Burton Raffel unapologetically brings to life in today's American idiom all the gusto of Rabelais's language. Raffel succeeds in making Gargantua and Pantagruel, so long a great unread classic, accessible and alive to the contemporary reader.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 623 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (September 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393308065
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393308068
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars 20 customer reviews (20 customer reviews)
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First Sentence:
Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad-or contagious. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shit stool, silver nymph, gold nymph, tower guardian, sacred edicts, begging monks, silver knight, gold queen, magnetic stone, heroic words, devil carry, good drinkers, fresh wine, boo boo boo, silver company
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brother John, Imported Goods, Grabby Puss, Furry Lawcats, Alexander the Great, Saint John, Divine Bottle, King Lent-Observance, Saint Anthony, Master Belly, Ringing Island, Captain Loudmouth, Fifth Essence, Julius Caesar, Lord Prior, Herr Trippa, Belly Worshipers, Drinkup Gutsout, Mardi Gras, Hans Carvel, King Anarch, Notre Dame, God&