The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Illustrated Edition) The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Illustrated Edition)

The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Illustrated Edition‪)‬

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François Rabelais (c. 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. 

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. The text features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence. Lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters. The censors of the Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression, it was dealt with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things".

This edition of Gargantua is illustrated and specially formatted with a Table of Contents.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
24 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
609
Pages
PUBLISHER
Charles River Editors
SIZE
9.3
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