FranÃ§ois Rabelais,Andrew Brown,Paul Bailey
As a companion volume to ,Pantagruel,, this new edition of ,Gargantua, continues Rabelaisâ€™ acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. ,Gargantua, introduces Pantagruelâ€™s fatherâ€”another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantuaâ€™s life story from his birth and education to his later life, Rabelais uses the events of the giantâ€™s life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor, obsession with food, and scatological wit of ,Pantagruel,, ,Gargantua, is a further striking burlesque on Rabelaisâ€™ contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.
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Gargantua