Gargantua an d Pantagruel

Informationen zum Autor Francois Rabelais Klappentext A masterly new translation of Rabelais?s robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua?s bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge. Zusammenfassung Presents the moral stories of Rabelais that expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rabelais, Francois Rabelais, Rabelais Francois, M. A. Screech, Rabelais Screech
• Mitarbeit: M. A. Screech (Einführung), Screech M. A. (Einführung), M A Screech - DECEASED (Übersetzung), M A Screech (Übersetzung), M. A. Screech (Übersetzung), Screech M. A. (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.10.2006
• EAN: 9780140445503
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044550-3
• Seiten: 1088
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 45 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Fantasy, FICTION / Fantasy / Humorous, FICTION / Satire, Comic (humorous) fantasy, Satirical fiction and parodies