A dreamlike bestiary of the Renaissance where the grotesque and the sublime shake hands.
Delve into Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel (1565), a parade of hybrid visions, satirical masks and veiled symbols that converse with the irreverent spirit of Rabelais. This artisanal edition honors the original aesthetics and elevates it with a carefully crafted binding, designed to protect such a rare and fascinating imagery. Limited edition to 200 copies in A5 format.
Dare you stroll among the figures that inhabit Pantagruel's dreams?
A copy that captures the mystery, the irony and visual exuberance of the Renaissance, ready to take a place of honor in your library.
Impossible figures for those who dare to look beyond.
GTIN: 9788409769186
Book in French
280.00€
1 in stock (can be backordered)
See the hidden universe of Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel, donde las fronteras entre lo humano y lo imposible se desdibujan para dar paso a un desfile de criaturas grotescas, máscaras vivientes y símbolos que parecen emerger de un sueño alquímico. Published in 1565 en el París renacentista, este enigmático compendio visual ha fascinado durante siglos a estudiosos, artistas y buscadores de lo arcano por su capacidad de hablar un lenguaje que trasciende la razón: el lenguaje de lo simbólico.
Cada figura que habita sus páginas parece guardar un secreto, una advertencia o una revelación para quienes se atreven a mirar más allá de su forma exterior. Es un espejo deformado del alma humana: a la vez cómico y siniestro, absurdo y profundamente espiritual. En sus gestos y deformidades se oculta un eco de lo sagrado, as if the dreams of Pantagruel were also ours, emerging from the collective depths of the psyche.
This extraordinary work invites you to delve into the secret imaginary of Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel, where art and symbol intertwine in a dance that escapes logic.
A journey that penetrates the abysses of Renaissance subconscious, revealing a territory where the grotesque becomes poetry and the impossible a metaphor. Each page opens a crack into the hidden, challenging our perception of the real and leading us into a state of wonder, as if we were hearing for a moment the forgotten voice of ancient dreams.
An invitation to contemplate the ineffable, to brush against the mystery that dwells in the shadows of the human soul.
Though signed by the printer Richard Breton and attributed to François Desprez, the true origin of Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel remains shrouded in a halo of uncertainty. Some scholars suspect that its figures were born on the fringes of hermetic circles of the French Renaissance, as cryptic exercises intended for initiates. Its partial anonymity only serves to increase the magnetism of the work, as if it had been conceived by a collective hand trying to hide behind the veil of the absurd.
Each creature seems to bear a hidden symbolic burden, like alchemical emblems disguised as grotesque satire. In their dislocated forms, echoes of ancient arcana resonate: visual metaphors about the transmutation of the spirit, divine madness and the primordial chaos from which creation arises. Far from being mere graphic whims, these visions act as mirrors of the unconscious, inviting the deciphering of the secret language with which François Desprez spoke to souls seeking the eternal.
280.00€
1 in stock (can be backordered)
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