Gargantua and Pantagruel
By: François Rabelais ; translated by Burton Raffel.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 623
Work titles: Gargantua et 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.
Notes: Translation of: Gargantua et Pantagruel.