Name: Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Author: Rabelais, Francois ; Screech, M. a.
ISBN: 9780140445503

Type

Physical Book

Author

François Rabelais

Translated by

M. a. Screech

Publisher

Penguin Group

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

720

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.1 x 4.7 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN

0140445501

ISBN13

9780140445503

Edition No.

Synopsis "Gargantua and Pantagruel"

A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua's bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.