Title: Gargantua and Pantagruel /
Authors: Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?; Raffel, Burton
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Rabelais, François, Translations into English.
Abstract: 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.