7/4/2023 0 Comments Bakhtin rabelais and his worldIf he does not discover, he foresees, he promises, he directs. But refracted by this foolery, the genius of the age and its prophetic power are revealed in all their majesty. "Rabelais collected wisdom from the popular elemental forces of the ancient Provencal idioms, sayings, proverbs, school farces, from the mouth of fools and clowns. "This image of the body acquired a considerable and substantial development in the popular, festive, and spectacle forms of the Middle Ages: in the feast of the fool, in charivari and carnival, in the popular side show of Corpus Christi, in the diableries of the mystery plays, the soties, and farces."- Rabelais and His World (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin, (p.27 tr. Gargantua eating six pilgrims from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, as illustrated by Gustave Doré
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