HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Silenus, Varg Vikernes, Albert Marquet
Document Summary
Rabelaisian book with the purpose of celebrating the pleasures of a good life by consuming foods and dinks: an ambiguous book because it has a double message. Politics, work and education are explained in a funny way. Part 1: heritage gargantua (heroic giant) means really big. Part 2: life gargantua was a monk, however, he hated this because he couldn"t handle the pressures of having a monk lifestyle. Some scholars believe that rabelais was brought up in a monastery; later in life, he became a friar, then a benedict monk. Part 3: carnival bhakti is fascinated by rabelais" language of the market place: this book is an inversion takes high talk of diplomacy and puts it on the gutter. This time is also an opportunity for violence, revenge. In rome, prostitutes, beggars, animals and jews were picked on during the renaissance. Part 4: humour humour of irony, it also operates on surprise humour.
