Gargantua and Pantagruel

Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.

Author: François Rabelais
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1991
Pages: 636
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780393308068

About the Author
Raffel, Burton: - Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Pere Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes.