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Zusatztext "What Rabelais rubs our noses in is not dirt but the remarkable fact that man is a kind of sewer with a holy spirit hovering over it. [His work] stands, along with Montaigne, Machiavelli, Hamlet, Don Quixote and perhaps Goethe's Faust, as a signpost of the European culture to which we are all to give allegiance. . . . Frame's translation is worth having." Informationen zum Autor François Rabelais is known through his work more than through the details of his life! which are scanty. Born in the late fifteenth century! he first chose the monastic life! then left to become a lay priest and make a career as a physician! teacher! and writer. Donald M. Frame ! (1911-1991) was Professor of French at Columbia University! and a renowned translator of! and expert on! Montaigne and Moliére as well as Rabelais. Raymond C. La Charité is Professor of French at the University of Kentucky and editor of French Forum and French Forum Monographs. Klappentext "A tour de force. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that, like his translation of Montaigne, [Frame's] translation of Rabelais will become the standard translation in English."—Philippe Desan, University of Chicago Zusammenfassung Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This translation, annotated for the nonspecialist, brings to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Foreword Translator's Note Introduction BOOK 1 The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel To The Readers Author's Prologue 1. Of the genealogy and antiquity of Gargantua. 2. The antidoted Frigglefraggles, found in an ancient monument. 3. How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother's belly. 4. How Gargamelle, while pregnant with Gargantua, ate a great abundance of tripes. 5. The palaver of the potted. 6. How Gargantua was born in a very strange fashion. 7. How the name was given to Gargantua, and how he inhaled the piot wine. 8. How they dressed Gargantua. 9. Of the colors and livery of Gargantua. 10. Of what is signified by the colors white and blue. 11. Of the childhood of Gargantua. 12. Of Gargantua's hobbyhorses. 13. How Grandgousier recognized the marvelous mind of Gargantua by the invention of an ass-wipe. 14. How Gargantua was instructed by a sophist in Latin letters. 15. How Gargantua was put under other teachers. 16. How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the enormous mare that bore him, and how she killed the ox-flies of Beauce. 17. How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians and how he took the great bells of Notre Dame Church. 18. How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to recover the great bells from Gargantua. 19. The harangue of Master Janotus de Bragmardo to Gargantua to recover the bells. 20. How the sophist took home his cloth and how he had a suit against the other masters. 21. Gargantua' s mode of study according to the teaching of his sophist tutors. 22. Gargantua's games. 23. How Gargantua was taught by Ponocrates in such a regimen that he did not waste an hour of the day. 24. How Gargantua used his time when the air was rainy. 25. How there was aroused between the fouaciers of Lerne and the men of Gargantua's country a great dispute from which were built up great wars. 26. How the inhabitants of Leme, at the command of Picrochole, their king, made an unexpected attack on Gargantua's shepherds. 27. How a monk of Seuill...
