TY - BOOK AU - Béroalde de Verville TI - Le moyen de parvenir, tome 2/3 AV - PQ PY - 2018/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- 17th century KW - Satire, French N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moyen_de_parvenir; Release date is 2018-09-09; Produced by Laurent Vogel, Guy de Montpellier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Le moyen de parvenir, tome 2/3" by Béroalde de Verville is a banquet narrative published in 1616. This eccentric work assembles guests from different eras and social ranks at an imaginary feast where they speak freely, moving from topic to topic through imperceptible connections. The text reflects late Renaissance anxieties following religious wars and social upheaval, channeling this turmoil into carnivalesque satire. With its transgressive content and chaotic structure, the work stands at the crossroads between Renaissance exuberance and emerging concepts of literary obscenity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57879 ER -