Gargantua and Pantagruel - Penguin Classics

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.

ISBN:	9780140445503
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	26 Oct 2006
DEWEY:	843.8
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	1041
Weight:	730g
Height:	195mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	47mm

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