Gargantua and Pantagruel

中文名：
巨人传
作者：
拉伯雷 Francois Rabelais
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters. At the same time he gives this definition of what he names Pantagruelism (the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel): "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things" (in French, "une certaine gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites").

Rabelais studied Ancient Greek, and used this as he invented hundreds of new words, some of which became part of the French language.[citation needed] His quibbling and other wordplay fills the book, and is quite free from any prudishness.

The introduction to the series, in an English translation,[1] runs:

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.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
 

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