Gargantua and Pantagruel

Introduction by Terence Cave

By Francois Rabelais
Introduction by Terence Cave
Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Pierre Le Motteux

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About Gargantua and Pantagruel

The unfettered exuberance of Gargantua and Pantagruel, the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane aspects of existence are at the very heart of Rabelais’ genius. But the author of this fantasia on the lives of a father-and-son pair of giants was one of the most magnificent and magnificently learned products of the Renaissance; and he also represents, as well as any of its other great figures, that era’s love of the human body and its exaltation of the human in the face of the divine.

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About Francois Rabelais

François Rabelais was born at the end of the fifteenth century. A Franciscan monk turned Benedictine, he abandoned the cloister in 1530 and began to study medicine at Montpellier. Two years later he wrote his first work, Pantagruel, which revealed… More about Francois Rabelais

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May 10, 1994 | 872 Pages | ISBN 9780679431374

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