num_pages: 807
description: Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.
language: English
title: Gargantua and Pantagruel
titlecomplete: Gargantua and Pantagruel
characters: Pantagruel, Poliphilo, Gargantua
genres: 16th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Humor, France
ratings_count: 15009
series: Gargantua and Pantagruel
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Everyman's Library