Panurge, Panurgy, polyglot

Mauricio Kagel was born in Buenos Aires in 1931, to a polyglot Jewish family who had arrived in South America from Eastern Europe in the late 1920s. Preferring to read philosophy and literature at university rather than attend a conservatory, he studied music intensively with private teachers, taking lessons in theory, piano, organ, cello, singing and conducting.

Panurge

潘紐爾治 天生害怕決裂 狡猾
A character in Rabelais's Pantagruel and succeeding books. His name is derived from the Greek panourgos (‘resourceful’, ‘cunning’), and he belongs to a large family of trickster-figures in world literature. He appears first as a polyglot adventurer whom Pantagruel befriends; in Pantagruel, although his exploits are often amoral, they are clearly meant in most cases to engage the complicity of the reader. In the Tiers Livre and Quart Livre he is increasingly presented as a victim of self-love (‘philautie’) and a coward (see the storm scene in the Quart Livre). Yet he remains energetic and resourceful, as in his virtuoso defence of debts and in the trick he plays on the merchant Dindenault.

poly・glot

━━ a., n. 数か国語に通じる（人）; 数か国語で書いた（本）; ((特に)) 数か国語対訳聖書.

Panurgy

n.[Gr. panoyrgi`a, fr. panoy^rgos, properly, ready to do anything; hence, knavish, roguish; pa^s, pa^n, all + 'e`rgon work.]
Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. [R.] Bailey.