Pantagruel and Gargantua (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847497406)

With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life.

But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Fran輟is Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.

Author: Fran輟is Rabelais
ISBN-10: 1847497403
ISBN-13: 9781847497406
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d