Gargantua

Rabelais's Gargantua is a prime example of absurdity as literary device (compare the structure of the great "arse-wiping" scene to the "Yorkshiremen" sketch above).

Strange Fiction 4 Hal Duncan 2006

Rabelais's Gargantua is a prime example of absurdity as literary device (compare the structure of the great "arse-wiping" scene to the "Yorkshiremen" sketch above).

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

When all was ready, they called Gargantua, but he was so aggrieved that the monk was not to be heard of that he would neither eat nor drink.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

When all was ready, they called Gargantua, but he was so aggrieved that the monk was not to be heard of that he would neither eat nor drink.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

When all was ready, they called Gargantua, but he was so aggrieved that the monk was not to be heard of that he would neither eat nor drink.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Rabelais’s Gargantua is an example of what’s known as the ‘carnivalesque’, a style of literature in which chaos and humour present an opportunity to challenge dominant beliefs and turn all hierarchies on their heads.

Sexing The Cherry « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Rabelais’s Gargantua is an example of what’s known as the ‘carnivalesque’, a style of literature in which chaos and humour present an opportunity to challenge dominant beliefs and turn all hierarchies on their heads.

2009 January « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Gargantua, that is no reason why other nations should believe in him; that if Gargantua had really performed one single prodigy out of the many attributed to him, the whole world would have resounded with it, all records would have noticed it, and a hundred monuments would have attested it.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Which the company hearing, said that verily the child ought to be called Gargantua; because it was the first word that after his birth his father had spoke, in imitation, and at the example of the ancient Hebrews; whereunto he condescended, and his mother was very well pleased therewith.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Which the company hearing, said that verily the child ought to be called Gargantua; because it was the first word that after his birth his father had spoke, in imitation, and at the example of the ancient Hebrews; whereunto he condescended, and his mother was very well pleased therewith.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002