by François Rabelais · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401422164
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«Gargantúa y Pantagruel» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (334 pages, in Spanish).
The book narrates the adventures of two giants, Gargantúa and Pantagruel, in a world of satire, humour and social criticism. Rabelais, a physician and humanist, combines the learned and the popular with wordplay and extravagant reasoning, satirising education, religion and the customs of his time. It is one of the great comic works of literature.
Originally published in French from 1532 as La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel. Belongs to the El Ave Fénix collection.
For those seeking a classic of satire and humour, with a humanist vision of the Renaissance.
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.
