Gargantua and Pantagruel (Translated by Screech 2006)

✍ Scribed by Francois Rabelais

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 639 KB
• Edition: Penguin Classics (2006)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1101489030

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 1,041 pages
Published: 1564
Edition: Penguin Classics (2006)
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Series Omnibus: Gargantua and Pantagruel #1-5
Translation (from French), Introduction and Notes by: M. A. Screech (2006)
Original Title: La vie de Gargantua et de 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.
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.
About the Author
François Rabelais (c.1483–c.1553) was a Franciscan monk turned Benedictine at the center of the sixteenth-century humanist movement.
M. A. Screech is a fellow of All Souls College and an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, as well as a fellow of the British Academy. He is a world-renowned Renaissance scholar who has published widely on Rabelais, Montaigne, and Erasmus.