François Rabelais - A Fox, a Lion, and an old hag

[MrDoremouse]

I've just listened to the BBC's dramatisation of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' (complete with funny voices and sound effects), but, being a dramatisation, it misses bits out. Not quite sure about that story...

[Amiduffer]

@MrDoremouse Ha ha. There's too much in there to read.

[BrookHornblower]

Prof. Michael heath is an expert on Rabelais. See e.g. Le Tiers Livre

[diacony]

help i need some informations about francois rabelais comique

[mistersleeepy]

whoah you look like Lenin.

Thanks! I've been mispronouncing Rabelais for years. Nice to hear someone actually say the name the right way.

[Amiduffer]

@mistersleeepy First time I've been compared to Lenin! Heh. I'm glad I said the name correctly. My French is terrible.

[tristramshandy3]

I just began this reading adventure, so I had to stop your video when you began going into details. I was brought to this text by my favorite book so far, Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", who mentions rabelais and cervantes more times than I can shake a tail feather. I'll come back after I've finished- barring an intervention from mighty jove himself. 10 pages in and I'm already laughing hysterically- this is going to be fun.

[Amiduffer]

Its a lot of work, and there's an important message in it, since he's attacking a whole lot of "sacred cows" and the general disgusting nature of people's backwardness, in amongst the the discussions of how to wipe your bum and so forth. It is fun.

[Antichrist4Life]

I remember when I was reading that part, it cracked me up and I couldn't believe it. Rabelais was heavily influenced by Boccaccio, but then again, who wasn't? My translation is by J. M. Cohen. Who's that one by?

[gbmillion]

Cohen's translation is masterly, Godsbum!

[Amiduffer]

Ha! If I rememeber, it might have been the Jacques Le Clercq version.

[zsylvana]

@Amiduffer Thank you Drew!Great video!I love this book.I read it long time and it´s

a favourite!Thank you for remind people about him.

[BeatBuddy]

Rabelais was a scathing satirist with a marvelous lack of inhibition. Great combination!

[Amiduffer]

He did have concern for the French people. He didn't want them to remain idiots!

[BeatBuddy]

Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and George Bernard Shaw had similar ideas about the French being idiots, but they brought the English under the idiot's umbrella. Shaw brought the Americans under it. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais hurled scathing attacks on French politics, himself a conniving scoundrel. (We share the same surname, but we're not related.)