Gargantua : the most horrific life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel / composed once upon a time by M. Alcofribas ... François Rabelais ; translated by Andrew Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?

Contributor:

Brown, Andrew, Dr.

Series:

100 pages

Standardized Title:

Gargantua. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gargantua (Legendary character)--Fiction.

Gargantua (Legendary character).

Giants (Folklore)--Fiction.

Giants (Folklore).

Giants.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 151 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Hesperus Press, 2003.

Summary:

Gargantua introduces Pantagruel's father--another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua's life story--from his birth and education to his later life--Rabelais uses the events of the giant's life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor, obsession with food, and scatological wit of Pantagruel, Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais' contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude. Physician and humanist Franois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553) was a leading figure in Renaissance France.

Contents:

Gargantua 1.

ISBN:

1843910578

OCLC:

52946746