by François Rabelais · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429723557
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«Gargantua i Pantagruel» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
Renaissance satire featuring the giants Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Rabelais combines scatological humour, parody and erudition to ridicule moral hypocrisy and mental routine, championing the human body and its functions. A capital work of world literature and a comic masterpiece.
Catalan edition translated by Miquel-Àngel Sánchez Férriz, published on 1 October 1985 in the MOLU-Les Millors Obres de la L. collection.
For readers who want to approach a Renaissance classic with acerbic humour and a critical outlook that remains relevant today.
François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters.
