Page 1 About the Author
François Rabelais (c. 1493 – 9 April 1553), great writer of the French Renaissance era, representative of humanism. Born into a wealthy family in Chinon. After becoming a monk under his father's arrangement, he became enthusiastic about studying ancient Greco-Roman works, studying French and law, and was attracted by humanistic ideas. He was suspected and punished for his correspondence with the humanist scholar Bidai. After angrily leaving the monastery, he began to travel in Major Cities such as Poitiers, Bordeaux, Toulouse, And Paris, visiting institutions of higher learning to increase his knowledge and understand society. Finally became a learned person.
In 1530, When Rabelais entered the university to study medicine, he was 36 years old, but it took him only two months to obtain a bachelor's degree and become a physician. In 1535, he went to Paris to study medicine, and soon received his master's and doctoral degrees. In 1537, he also bravely dissected the body of a hanged prisoner. This pursuit of science was very bold at the time, because it would anger the Catholic Church.
In 1532, the first part of the Biography of the Giants was published, and a second was published a year later, signed by Narciel. After its publication, the book was warmly welcomed by the urban bourgeoisie and the lower classes of society, but it was also extremely hated by the church and the nobility, and was declared a banned book by the court. In 1545, under the protection of the King's charter, Rabelais published the third part of the Legend of the Giants under his real name. But the king died soon after, the novel was banned, the publisher was burned to death, and Rabelais was forced to flee. It was not until 1550 that he was allowed to return to France.
The Chronicles of the Giants, which was all the rage after its publication, exposed the darkness and decay of the medieval church and reflected the Renaissance humanists' quest for the sexual emancipation of the bourgeoisie. In Rabelais's ideal society, human nature is good, the people are simple, and his ideal code of conduct is: "Do whatever you love." When reading Rabelais's "The Legend of the Giants", everyone can laugh happily, cheerfully, and laugh heartily, which is why he is called "the great laugher". On April 9, 1553, Rabelais died in Paris, and on his deathbed he smiled and said, "Pull the curtain, the play is finished." ”
Page 2 Celebrity Reviews
1. This book is the masterpiece of the French Renaissance humanist writer Rabelais, and is based on French folklore stories, mainly the history of the activities of the three generations of giants of the giants, King Granguje, Kaguntua and the giant Gué father and son.
This book contains many things, such astronomy, geography, meteorology, navigation, etc., which is simply historical. In addition, because Rabelais believes that "laughter is the essence of man", there are many jokes in this book, which are really hilarious.
The author's thoughts can also be read in this book, and Rabelais's harsh criticism of feudal theocracy and the pursuit of humanistic ideals are all integrated into the various plots of this book, which can be said to be extremely wonderful.
2, this book is really worth reading. There are many excellent characters in it that are worth learning, and the character of the three generations of giants of the father and son, Granguje, Kaganduya, and huge Gué, are very noble, generous, turn enemies into friends, and good at interacting with people. And they are all well-informed and courageous. The book is characterized by the exquisite irony, humor, and extreme imagination revealed in its absurd and exaggerated descriptions. This feature stems from Rabelais's outstanding inheritance and transformation of the folk literary tradition. In the study of contemporary literature, this work is attracting more and more attention with its unique artistic charm.
Page 3 Background of writing
The Legend of the Giants, originally titled Gaukang Da and The Great Gué, consists of five volumes and is a multi-biography novel by the French Renaissance novelist Rabelais, published in 1532-1564. It is a satirical novel about the miraculous deeds of two giant kings, Gao Kangda, and his son, Colossus Guai:
The extraordinary birth of Gao Kangda;
The adventures of the great Gouge while studying in Paris;
The discussion of marriage issues by Zoe Gue and Gao Kangda;
Huge Gu'ai traveled far and wide to find the source of wisdom, the "God Bottle", and finally got his wish.
The work lashed out at the feudal society of the 16th century in France, was the cry of the emerging bourgeoisie for the rule of the feudal church, and fully embodied the humanist affirmation of man, human nature and human creativity. In the novel, Rabelais bitterly criticizes the hypocrisy and cruelty of the Church, especially denouncing the Catholic scholastic education that poisons children.
Page 4 Main content
Part I
"The Great Story of Gao Kang" features Gao Kangda, the father of the huge Gu'ai, as the protagonist of the novel. Gao Kangda's mother was pregnant for eleven months, and on the day of the pot, she ate too much beef intestine, applied an astringent, but the drug was too strong, and the result was that the coat was broken, and the child drilled into the aorta through the diaphragm and shoulder, and drilled out of the left ear. As soon as he landed, instead of crying from other babies, he shouted, "Drink! Drink! Drink! ”
Gao Kangda was an uncompromising giant, he had to eat the milk of more than seventeen thousand cows a day, and before he was two years old, he had an eighteen-story chin, and his whole body was pearlescent, and he had to use nearly 10,000 yards of velvet for a single brocade robe. From the age of three to five, his life was to drink, to eat, to sleep; to eat, to sleep, to drink; to sleep, to drink, to eat.
Gao Kangda's father, Da Belly, has invited a number of teachers to teach Gao Kangda, but the more he learns, the more stupid he becomes. Lost soul, blunt mouth. In the end, DaBao had to decide to let Gao Kang go to Paris to study. He was very popular in Paris, and everyone followed him closely. Forcing him to go to the bell tower of the Church of Our Lady to take shelter for a while, he took the bell of the Church of Our Lady as a horse bell, causing a commotion in the whole city.
Gao Kangda's teacher, Banocrat, consulted the master, prescribed a laxative, completely eliminated all the faults and vices of Gao Kangda from his head, and then told him to study with his heart, and a moment of time was not in vain. During the meal, the teacher saw the needle to explain to him the knowledge of the variety of meals, and while playing cards, he also studied mathematics. In addition, he also studied astronomy, music, sports, military martial arts and astronomical geography, etc., from morning to night, there was almost no pause, and he also improved day by day.
When the season of harvesting grapes came, there was a dispute between the pastry sellers in Leier and the villagers who guarded the vineyards in Gaokangda, and the residents of Leier, under the leadership of the king Thunderbolt Fire, unexpectedly attacked Gaokangda's hometown, and ransacked everywhere they went, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, and did not ask about the temple's houses, causing an incomparable chaos, but did not encounter any resistance.
The army of Thunderbolt Fire ravaged all the way, plundering and plundering, all the way to Saye. A group of monks in the monastery were frightened and asked for blessings, but only Monk John stepped forward. He took off his robe, grabbed a long-handled cross, and unexpectedly rushed out, using the old-school martial arts, seven vertical and eight vertical, a series of random beatings, killing the enemy without a single one.
However, just as the monks were fighting, Thunderbolt Fire led the men and horses to ClayMore Rock, and Gao Kangda's father, Dabao, was forced to fight and was in a precarious situation. Forced by helplessness, he wrote a letter to his son, asking him to hurry back to China to defend the people and property. On the other hand, he also tried to make peace with the Thunderbolt Fire, but it backfired and there was no hope of peace. Gao Kangda received a letter from his father and left Paris in a hurry, running all the way back to China.
Despite the large amount of patience and persuasion, Thunderbolt Fire continued to attack and encountered Gao Kangda. Gao Kangda's big horse song loosened his stomach and sprinkled a soak of urine, which turned into a seven-mile-long flood, and the enemy was caught off guard, almost all of them drowned, and only a few escaped to the hillside were spared. The remnants of the enemy in the fortress fired nine thousand and twenty-five shells at Gao Kang, but they did not hurt him in the slightest. Gao Kang pulled up the trunk of a large tree and smashed it against the fortress, which was completely destroyed, and the enemy's head was in a different place and his limbs were broken. Later, he led his father's army, assisted by The John friars, to a thunderbolt and abandon his armor and flee into the wilderness.
After the war, Gao Kangda rewarded the generals for their meritorious deeds, and at the same time did not forget to reward the monk John for his meritorious service. Gao Kangda deliberately built the Delianmei Monastery, stipulating that only women with good looks, fit in stature, and gentle disposition should be accepted, and men with lofty temperament, burly physique, and gentle disposition; it was stipulated that wherever there were women, there must be men, and wherever there were men, there must be women; male and female monks could marry in an honorable manner; and everyone could be rich and wealthy, and live freely. The monastery has only one rule: "Do what you want." ”
Part II
Gao Kang lived to be four hundred and eighty, plus forty and four years old, and gave birth to a son with his wife, Princess Baibek, the daughter of the Utopian King. It's a huge guai. The princess died in childbirth, because the huge Gue was really fat and bulky. His father named him Colossus Gue because of a drought in the year of his birth, and "Colossus" means "ten" in Greek and "Gue" means "thirsty" in Hakale. The birth of the huge Gu'ai made Gao Kang feel sad and happy, and laughed. He didn't know whether to grieve over his wife's death or rejoice in the birth of his son.
The speed of his stature and physical strength was unbelievable, he drank four thousand six hundred cows at every meal, and when the cows were fed to him, he broke free of the ropes of the cradle and almost swallowed the cows.
Gao Kang, fearing that he would run into trouble, ordered four thick chains to be specially made, tied him up, and installed many thick wooden strips on the sides of his cradle, and tightly bound the cradle just in case. However, one day during the festival, Gao Kang swung a big feast and left aside the poor huge Gu'ai, and he actually kicked the cradle through with two feet, sliding a bone to the ground, and the chain chain took the cradle on his back and left, declaring that he would never go back to sleep in the cradle.
In this way, the huge Gué was old day and night, and his father sent him to school, let him read and write, and spent his youth. He went to the University of Boisdières to study and grew very quickly. After that, he traveled to famous universities throughout France: Bordeaux, Toulouse, Montpellier, Valence, Angers, Bourges, Orléans, and finally to Paris. Finally, the great Gue came to Paris and studied the seven disciplines of grammar, ethics, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
One day, Colossus Gué met a handsome but scarred middle-aged man on the street, and after talking, he found that this person could speak various languages, and finally learned that his name was Baruch, and the two were inseparable from each other.
Colossus Gue did not forget his father's teachings, and one day he wanted to try his talents, so he put on a stand to debate with the dean, professors and orators of the academy, and the result was that the other side was red-faced. So the news spread immediately, and it happened that the court had a pending lawsuit, and the case had been discussed for forty-six weeks without any results.
The parties were two big people, and Huge Gu'ai was naturally invited to try the case. He summoned two parties and asked them to argue in court, and finally the case, which had no clue, was pronounced in the mouth of the huge Gue, and the verdict was clear. The head is the Tao, and both parties express their satisfaction and withdraw separately. As for the counselors and doctors of law in the audience, they all admired the extraordinary knowledge and insight of the huge Gué.
Soon after, the great Guée heard that the people of Deposha had invaded Amorotto's territory, and hurriedly left Paris with a group of people to fight the enemy, and he and his companions defeated six hundred enemy knights, and everyone drank happily. The enemy sent another three hundred giants, and as a result, the huge Gueze threw a puddle of urine at the enemy camp. The amount of urine was so large that it drowned all the enemy troops, and the enemy suffered countless casualties. After the battle, Colossus and Baruchi came to the city of Amoloto, declared victory, and mobilized the inhabitants to conquer the kingdom of Deposha, which was finally successful.
Part III
After conquering the entire kingdom of Deposha, the vast Gué turned the region into a utopian colony and carried out a large number of immigrants, totaling 9,876,543,210 people. After that, it is the question of how to govern the country. To govern a country, we must not use violence to plunder, exploit, and ravage people, but to treat them kindly, just like a newborn baby, to put him in the cradle and coax him to take care of it.
To govern the country. The great Guei appointed Baruqi as the master of the Samir Gundan Palace Fort, and gave him a generous feast, and Bajuqi put on a feast, which was extremely expensive, and borrowed a lot of money, so that he could not make ends meet. He was neither angry nor dissatisfied with this, and now that he could live in such a vast land, he did not need to waste any more energy and passion. He was content with Bayuch's assistance, but he gently advised the other side to be restrained, otherwise he would not be able to get rich. Baruch disagreed with this statement, arguing that as long as people live happily and healthily, moderation cannot bring about true wealth. In order to clean up the territory, the giant Guai consulted Baruch and asked him how he thought of lending. Baruch gushed, made grandiose remarks, and praised the moneylenders.
Bajuqi wants to get married, but is undecided about marriage and worries that his future wife will have an affair. Put a green hat on yourself, because it was commonplace at the time. Baruqi wavered and worried, so he asked the huge Guai for advice. Colossus Gué could not give useful advice, because he found it difficult to express his opinion on marriage issues. So they found a book of calculations, and the huge Gue found that what was said in the book was very unfavorable to Baruqi, but Baruqi's view was not the same as that of The Huge Gue.
Baruqi consulted with various people about their views on marriage, and the more he tried to find the answer, the more he fell into an embarrassing dilemma. At this time, the giant Gue came up with an idea, saying that there is a proverb that the madman knows better than the wise man, so he suggested that Baruqi go to the madman to ask, the madman talked nonsense, but mentioned the prophecy of the god bottle, it is said that there is an answer in the god bottle, and the huge Gue and Baruch decided to leave to find the god bottle. So they began to prepare for the sea.
Part IV
It is said that Zoegue and Baruch decided to set out to find the prophecy on the bottle to determine whether Baruch should get married or not. With the consent of his father Gao Kangda, the great Gu'ai borrowed a ship from him, gathered a large number of men and horses, and united into a huge sea fleet, carrying enough food and necessities of life, and preparing to set off. On the day of departure and for the next two days, they didn't touch anything on land or anything else.
On the fourth day, they discovered a small island called Madmodi under the guidance of the lighthouse. It is said to be a small island, but it looks as big as Canada. The king of the island was absent from the island because he was out for a wedding. This is a rich island, it is the third day of the market, everyone can't help but buy a lot of new and beautiful things, especially the huge Guai, crazy to buy many strange animals.
By the fifth day, they had gradually moved away from the equator. On the way, they encountered a merchant ship, and both sides were extremely happy to meet each other on the vast sea, exchanging news on sea and land. When it was learned that the other party was from the Lantern Nation, the entire fleet of Egyptian ships was extremely happy. They learned about the customs and customs of each other's countries. However, Baruqi and one of the sailors of the merchant ship quarreled over the matter of the green hat, and the two sides provoked each other, satirized each other, and even to the point of causing human life, and the owner of the merchant ship and the huge Guei intervened to mediate, so that the two sides could freeze the previous suspicions.
Baruchi wanted to buy a ewe from the merchant who had previously quarreled with him, and the merchant took advantage of the opportunity to taunt Baruqi and deliberately raise prices. After several maneuvers, Baruch finally bought a high price for a ewe, and he unceremoniously picked the fattest and best of the flock, which was the head of the flock, which made the merchant regret it. Saying that it was too late and fast, Baruch threw the ewe into the sea, and the other ewes of the flock saw it and jumped into the sea.
The merchant saw that all his sheep had jumped into the sea, and hurried to stop it, but before it was too late, he only caught one ewe, but he fell into the sea with the sheep. The ship overturned and the merchant drowned. The shepherds who were with them swam to the boat where Baruch was located, but Baruch threw up his oars, not to save them, but to drive them away, and to make a big fuss at them, causing the shepherds to all be buried in the sea.
After a few more days, the fleet came to another island, which was called "Marriage Island". The 10,000 men, women and children on the island all have trifoliated noses, and they are married to each other, all are related, and belong to the same big family. Curiously, in such a large family, the relationship between members is complex.
Later, they came to the place where the Sikanus lived, the "Litigation Island", where they also saw strange phenomena that they had heard before. The Sikarnus were full of hair, and instead of inviting the great Guai and others to drink and eat, they asked them to pay for their labor services in exchange.
What is even stranger is that their way of subsistence is the exact opposite of that of ordinary people, in Rome, in order to survive, they have to fight and win; here, the Sicanu people's way of subsistence is actually beaten, and if they are not defeated for a long time, then they will die of famine. Then, after a storm, the huge Gu'ai and Baruqi and their party came to the place where the Fasting People ruled, and the people here were not as famous as they were, and their lives were extremely pompous and very gluttonous. They were sworn enemies of the sausage countrymen of neighboring countries.
Later, they came to The Island of Lua, and the people of The Island of Lua were also very strange, they actually lived by the wind, feeding on all kinds of fans, they used the hyacinth as their home, and the rich people lived in the mill.
After several twists and turns, the group came to the island of Papfig, where the people were originally very rich and called the Runaways, and this is history, and now they are poor and ruled by the neighboring Papumana people. It turned out that they had made a fig gesture to the portrait of the Pope, so they were punished and reduced to slavery.
Part V
After embarking on a voyage to find the Divine Bottle, the huge Gué and Baruqi and their party experienced various customs and customs, and saw all kinds of strange people and strange things that had never been heard of, and they continued their voyage. For three days, they didn't find anything out of the ordinary. On the fourth day, they found land, and the navigator told everyone that this land was called "Zhongming Island". From the island, there was a loud noise from afar, which felt like the sound of various bells of all sizes.
The huge Guai and his party came to the bottom of the cliff, abandoned the boat and came ashore, hiding in a nearby hut. The owner of the cottage was a hermit who entertained everyone in an extremely strange way. He first asked everyone to fast for four consecutive days, because it was the "four o'clock" fasting day on Zhongming Island. Fasting Day finally came to an end, and the hermit gave everyone a letter, and the recipient was the owner of Zhongming Island.
At the request of the hermit, the good old man entertained the huge Gu'ai and his party well, and when everyone had eaten and drunk enough, he began to introduce the unusual features of Zhongming Island to everyone. Originally, the inhabitants of Jongsang Island were Stesines, but according to the natural laws of eternal change of things, they became birds.
He then introduced the birdcage to everyone, which was unusually large, sensational, and the architectural structure was very novel. Birds are huge, very beautiful, very attentive, and look like people in China, who eat and drink, chat, fart, sleep, and mate like ordinary people. To put it simply, they look no different from ordinary people at first glance, but they are not human beings, they do not belong to reality and do not belong to this world, and their feathers are also very dreamy, some are all white, some are all black, all gray, all red, and some are half white, half black, half blue, and so on. The birds here are categorized exactly according to the priesthood hierarchy, and if they are greedy they will become deaf, said the monk John, who went with him: "It is really a curse to see these ghost-like birds." ”
Then, the huge Guai and his party came to the "Condemnation Island", which is a deserted island and uninhabited. There are countless trees on the island, some of which are hung with hoes, shovels, tile knives, sickles, saws, scissors and other iron tools. There are also daggers, swords, knives, swords and other sharp weapons, who want, just shake the trees can, once they land, they will be combined with a plant called sheath grass growing on the ground, immediately into the sheath.
Just looking at these trees makes you feel that The Island of Condemnation is a spooky place. What is even more frightening is that there is a kind of "cat in a leather robe" here, which is very fierce, they have unusually sharp claws, and they actually have a large open pocket hanging from their bodies, and they specialize in bribery.
Immediately after, the huge Gu'ai and his party came to the "Five Elemental Country", where strange things were also happening. The queen of the kingdom actually used song to heal all kinds of incurable diseases, she did not eat like ordinary people, but fed on thoughts, images, abstractions, dreams, concepts, etc., and the debate here was whether goat wool was wool or not.
After some adventure, the people of Huge Guai and Baruqi finally reached their destination, which was the "Land of Lights". There is a temple here with a fountain that spews out not water but wine. Bayuch was taken alone to a small room, where he finally saw the long-sought bottle and heard a voice from the air: "Drink!" "That's the answer they've been looking for.
Page 5 Quotes
1, life is hard, in the people who are not willing to be mediocre, it is a dayless struggle, often tragic, no glory, no happiness, in the struggle between loneliness and silence.
2 Poverty, daily worries, heavy and foolish labors weigh on them, draining their energies uselessly, without hope without a light of joy, most of them isolated from each other, without even the comfort of a helping hand for their brothers in distress. They don't know each other exists. They can only rely on themselves; but sometimes even the strongest people are inevitably caught in suffering. They asked for help, a friend.
3. O unfortunate people! Do not be too grumpy, the best of humanity are with you. Draw on their courage as our nourishment; if we are too weak, rest our heads on their 'laps!'
4) Without great character, there are no great people, not even great artists, great actors; all that is empty idols, matching the lowly masses, time will destroy them all together. What does success or failure have to do with it? It's about being great, not being great.
(To be continued)
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