Title: 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.
Subjects: Giants, French Fantastic fiction, Gargantua (Legendary character), Fiction, Translations into English, French Fantasy fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general, France, fiction