Gargantua and Pantagruel
Mikhail Bakhtin's book "Rabelais and His World" explores "Gargantua and Pantagruel" and is considered a classic of Renaissance studies. Bakhtin declares that for centuries Rabelais' book had been misunderstood. Throughout "Rabelais and His World", Bakhtin attempts two things. First, to recover sections of Gargantua and Pantagruel that in the past were either ignored or suppressed. Secondly, to conduct an analysis of the Renaissance social system in order to discover the balance between language that was permitted and language which was not.