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Gargantua And Pantagruel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

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Book 2, Prologue-Chapter 20Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Book 2: “Gargantua”

Book 2, “The Prologue of the Author” Summary

The author devotes his writings to drinkers and revelers and says that, although humorous works such as his appear “ugly” and “frivolous” on the outside, they contain many profound truths.

Book 2, Chapter 1 Summary: “On the lineage and ancient origins of Gargantua”

Since he does not want to repeat himself, the narrator says the reader can consult his previous book Pantagruel for Gargantua’s lineage. Gargantua’s genealogy was discovered by Jean Adeau in a great tomb in a meadow near Arcea-Galeau and also contained a little treatise called “Antidoted Bubbles”.

Book 2, Chapter 2 Summary: “The Antidoted Bubbles discovered within a monument from antiquity”

The narrator recounts the treatise, which was written as a poem. The poem is nonsensical.

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