num_pages: 712
description: Gargantua and Pantagruel stands unique among the world's literature for its robust exuberance and monstrous exaggeration. Rabelais (c. 1494-1553), a monk who also qualified as a Bachelor of Medicine, was persecuted by both religious and civil authorities for its publication. As he chronicles the fantastic adventures of the two giants, a series of caricatures emerges, depicting the church hierarchy, schools and universities, theologians, lawyers, and philosophers. The impression received is of the conflict of two ages overlapping: the new age of humanism, research, and individualism, and the former one of the fixed world-order of the schoolmen.J.M. Cohen has translated nine volumes for the Penguin Classics, and has edited several anthologies.
language: English
title: Gargantua and Pantagruel
titlecomplete: Gargantua and Pantagruel
characters: Gargantua, Poliphilo, Pantagruel
genres: Fiction, 16th Century, France, French Literature, Philosophy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 15008
series: Gargantua and Pantagruel
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Penguin Books