RABELAIS: BETTER LAUGH THAN CRY “There is no choice for my heart Seeing this sadness that consumes you and gnaws at you It is better to laugh than to cry Because laughter is man’s...
RABELAIS: BETTER LAUGH THAN CRY
“There is no choice for my heart
Seeing this sadness that consumes you and gnaws at you
It is better to laugh than to cry
Because laughter is man’s thing”
-François Rabelais
Rabelais ranks among the greats… Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dante… But it took the 19th century to discover this 16th century genius, and the 20th century to abundantly write about him.
Why is Rabelais so close to us after so many centuries? It is because he touches upon everything human.
He is driven by an unquenchable thirst to better understand human nature and human institutions…
And he knows how make us laugh… at ourselves, our pretensions…
An exulting belly laughter to make us feel better… He inspires us to be curious and learn all life long, and we are all characterized by the desire to learn, to know, even if sometimes it goes beyond our ability to understand.
Most of all, Rabelais’s frank, crude, grotesque, farcical, cynical, satirical, obscene, scatological words liberate us from too much “civilization.”
Doors open at 3:30 pm.
Wine and soft drinks will be available for purchase.
