Gargantua and Pantagruel

Description:

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.

subjects: Giants,  French Fantastic fiction,  Gargantua (Legendary character),  Fiction,  Translations into English,  French Fantasy fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, general,  France, fiction