Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Publisher: Penguin Group | ISBN: 0140445501 | edition 2006 | PDF | 1104 pages | 8,7 mb
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son 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.