Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel
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 p The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of...
