by François Rabelais · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070363872
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«Pantagruel» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, in the Folio Classique collection, in paperback (439 pages, in French).
The book recounts the life and deeds of the giant Pantagruel, from his extraordinary birth to his studies in Paris and his travels through the kingdom of Utopia. Throughout the narrative, Rabelais combines erudition and jokes, with unbridled humour, to mock the institutions and beliefs of his time.
Edition established and annotated by Pierre Michel, with a preface by Jules Michelet. Volume 387 of the Folio Classique collection and first instalment of the «Gargantua and Pantagruel» series.
For readers of classic French literature and Renaissance satire.
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.
