Beyond the rewriting of certain episodes from the two series of drafts that comprise The Fifth Book, the following question has often been considered: What use would Rabelais potentially have made of these pages if he had written a genuine “Fifth Book”? Using the example of a short episode—Bacchus’s conquest of the Indians and its Lucianist intertext (CL, XXXVIII–XLII)—, this contribution proposes a review of this subject, factoring in the Rabelaisian method of using and “digesting” his sources in order to open up the possibility of a reevaluation of the initial project.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-11504-5
EAN:9782406115045
ISSN: 2554-9111
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11504-5.p.0125
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 04-29-2021
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Dionysus, Lucian of Samosata, satire, paratext, dialogism