Author:Francois Rabelais
Rabelais's hilarious, scabrous and often scatological fantasy of life amonth the monks and friars of sixteenth-century France remains a satirical and comic classic. A great broth of a book in which every conceivable literary form is parodied and every human desire satirized. But under the comedy there is a serious purpose, for Rabelais also enspouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty. The book is here presented in the classic translation by Urquhart and Motteux.
It is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many
—— Anthony BurgessA quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish
—— GuardianThe best story Hemingway has written...No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently.
—— Sunday TimesA very good and varied collection, with delightful oddities
—— The TimesUnfailingly honest
—— Sunday TimesAndric possess the rare gift in a historical novelist of creating a period-piece, full of local colour, and at the same time characters who might have been living today
—— Times Literary SupplementJust as the bridge on the Drina brought East and West together so your work has acted as a link, combining the culture of your country with other parts of the planet
—— Göran Liljestrand, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences member
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