By François Rabelais.
Book Two is right up there with Book One however it is more linear. Part of what I liked about Book One was that it wasn’t dictated to by the story. The story was told, but chapters were sometimes ever increasing tangents. Book Two is far more straightforward as each chapter follows the other – the absurdity is within the episodes themselves. Frère Jean is a fantastic creation – a warrior ex-monk is search of the divine in a bottle:
But from good wine you can’t make bad Latin.In Book Two you meet comic genius mixed with a sublime imagination and ideas. Rabelais is a revelation.
I have recorded the major part of the book for Librivox and would be interested in your opinion. I studied Rabelais at one of the UK’s ancient universities.
http://archive.org/details/gargantuapantagruel2_1308_librivox
Martin
I will have a look. I have listened to a few of the books you have been involved with.
Cheers!
scott