Gargantua and Pantagruel

Rabelais, Francois

ISBN 10 : 1522726195 ISBN 13 : 9781522726197

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge. Includes unique illustrations.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Francois Rabelais (c.1494 1553) briefly studied law before joining the priesthood. He left the Church to study and practice medicine, and his comic masterpiece, Gargantua and Pantagruel, secured his place as France's first great prose author."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1522726195
• ISBN 13: 9781522726197
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 472