Аннотация: Gargantua and 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 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.

Автор/составитель	Rabelais Francois
Серия	Penguin Classics
Год выпуска	2006
ISBN	9780140445503
Производитель	Penguin
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	1041
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	200x132x48 мм
Тип бумаги	офсетная (60-220 г/м2)
Вес	750
Язык	английский