Mise En Scène Du Prologue D Antigone

Picrocole. Though the internal chronology rules out the appearance of Panurge, the lusty Frère Jean shoulders a comparable anarchic role. A liminary poem ends: ‘Rire est le propre de l’Homme’, as though to define what follows as comic invention. Yet the prologue invites the reader to ‘rompre l’os’ and seek the ‘substantifique moëlle’ contained within the text. But although this suggestion that there is a hidden sense is contradicted by the following paragraphs, there is no doubt that Rabelais’s purpose was