欧宝娱乐

“The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. For this reason, great changes, even in the field of science, are always preceded by a certain carnival consciousness that prepares the way.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin

“Prattling gabblers,
lickorous gluttons,
freckled bittors,
mangy rascals,
shite-a-bed scoundrels,
drunken roysters,
sly knaves,
drowsy loiterers,
slapsauce fellows,
slabberdegullion druggels,
lubberly louts,
cozening foxes,
ruffian rogues,
paltry customers,
sycophant-varlets,
drawlatch hoydens,
flouting milksops,
jeering companions,
staring clowns,
forlorn snakes,
ninny lobcocks,
scurvy sneaksbies,
fondling fops,
base loons,
saucy coxcombs,
idle lusks,
scoffing braggarts,
noddy meacocks,
blockish grutnols,
doddipol-joltheads,
jobbernol goosecaps,
foolish loggerheads,
flutch calf-lollies,
grouthead gnat-snappers,
lob-dotterels,
gaping changelings,
codshead loobies,
woodcock slangams,
ninny-hammer flycatchers,
noddypeak simpletons,
turdy gut,
shitten shepherds,
and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.”
― Thomas Urquhart

“With the motto 鈥渄o what you will,鈥� Rabelais gave himself permission to do anything he damn well pleased with the language and the form of the novel; as a result, every author of an innovative novel mixing literary forms and genres in an extravagant style is indebted to Rabelais, directly or indirectly. Out of his codpiece came Aneau鈥檚 Alector, Nashe鈥檚 Unfortunate Traveller, L贸pez de 脷beda鈥檚 Justina, Cervantes鈥� Don Quixote, B茅roalde de Verville鈥檚 Fantastic Tales, Sorel鈥檚 Francion, Burton鈥檚 Anatomy, Swift鈥檚 Tale of a Tub and Gulliver鈥檚 Travels, Fielding鈥檚 Tom Jones, Amory鈥檚 John Buncle, Sterne鈥檚 Tristram Shandy, the novels of Diderot and maybe Voltaire (a late convert), Smollett鈥檚 Adventures of an Atom, Hoffmann鈥檚 Tomcat Murr, Hugo鈥檚 Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Southey鈥檚 Doctor, Melville鈥檚 Moby-Dick, Flaubert鈥檚 Temptation of Saint Anthony and Bouvard and Pecuchet, Twain鈥檚 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Rolfe鈥檚 ornate novels, Bely鈥檚 Petersburg, Joyce鈥檚 Ulysses, Witkiewicz鈥檚 Polish jokes, Flann O鈥橞rien鈥檚 Irish farces, Philip Wylie鈥檚 Finnley Wren, Patchen鈥檚 tender novels, Burroughs鈥檚 and Kerouac鈥檚 mad ones, Nabokov鈥檚 later works, Schmidt鈥檚 fiction, the novels of Durrell, Burgess (especially A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers), Gaddis and Pynchon, Barth, Coover, Sorrentino, Reed鈥檚 Mumbo Jumbo, Brossard鈥檚 later works, the masterpieces of Latin American magic realism (Paradiso, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Three Trapped Tigers, I the Supreme, Avalovara, Terra Nostra, Palinuro of Mexico), the fabulous creations of those gay Cubans Severo Sarduy and Reinaldo Arenas, Markson鈥檚 Springer鈥檚 Progress, Mano鈥檚 Take Five, R铆os鈥檚 Larva and otros libros, the novels of Paul West, Tom Robbins, Stanley Elkin, Alexander Theroux, W. M. Spackman, Alasdair Gray, Ga茅tan Soucy, and Rikki Ducornet (鈥淟ady Rabelais,鈥� as one critic called her), Mark Leyner鈥檚 hyperbolic novels, the writings of Magiser Gass, Greer Gilman鈥檚 folkloric fictions and Roger Boylan鈥檚 Celtic comedies, Vollmann鈥檚 voluminous volumes, Wallace鈥檚 brainy fictions, Siegel鈥檚 Love in a Dead Language, Danielewski鈥檚 novels, Jackson鈥檚 Half Life, Field鈥檚 Ululu, De La Pava鈥檚 Naked Singularity, and James McCourt鈥檚 ongoing Mawrdew Czgowchwz saga.

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― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

“[Excerpt from Kenneth Brown testimony] These works use often repulsive techniques and vocabulary to make-to insist-that people will look at the whole of things and not just one side. These artists wish not to divide the world in half and say one is good and one is bad and avoid the bad and accept the good, but you must, to be a real and whole person, you must see all of life, and see it in a balanced, honest way. I would include Mr. Bruce, certainly, in his intent, and he has success in doing this, as did Rabelais and Swift.”
― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

“Jerry had indeed something in him that went beyond Rabelaisianism, in that he not only could get an ecstasy of curious satisfaction from the most drab, ordinary, homely, realistic aspects of what might be called the excremental under-tides of existence but he could slough off his loathing for humanity in this contemplation and grow gay, child-like, guileless.”
― John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands