When was françois rabelais born
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Gargantua" and "Pantagruel" redirect here. For other uses, see Gargantua (disambiguation) and Pantagruel (ensemble).
16th-century novels by François Rabelais
Title-page of a c. 1532 edition of Pantagruel | |
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| Author | François Rabelais ("Alcofribas Nasier") |
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| Original title | Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel |
| Translator | Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux |
| Illustrator | Gustave Doré (1854 edition) |
| Country | France |
| Language | Classical French |
| Genre | Satire |
| Published | c. 1532 – c. 1564 |
| Published in English | 1693–1694 |
| No. of books | 5 |
The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (French: Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books),[1] is a pentalogy of n
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Rabelais, François
BORN: 1494, Chinon, France
DIED: 1553, Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes, with His
Heroic Acts and Prowesses (1532)
The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua,
Father of Pantagruel (1534)
Third Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the
Good Pantagruel (1546)
Fourth Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of
the Good Pantagruel (1552)
The Ringing Island (1562)
Overview
A Renaissance monk, physician, and scholar, François Rabelais is best remembered today for his Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), a multivolume narrative comprising comedy, satire, myth, and humanist philosophy and detailing the epic stories of two giants' upbringing, ribald adventures, and journeys toward self-discovery. A prominent influence on writers from Laurence Sterne to James Joyce, Rabelais has been described as “the miracle of the sixteenth century” by Anatole France, and is often considered the French equivalent of William Shakespeare and one of the half-dozen or so giants of world literature.
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François Rabelais
French writer and humanist (died 1553)
"Rabelais" redirects here. For other uses, see Rabelais (disambiguation).
François Rabelais (RAB-ə-lay, -LAY;[2][3]French:[fʁɑ̃swaʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.[4] A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters.
Living in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais treated the great questions of his time in his novels. Rabelais admired Erasmus and like him is considered a Christian humanist. He was critical of medieval scholasticism and lampooned the abuses of powerful princes and popes.
Rabelais is widely known for the firs
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