by François Rabelais · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788426432131
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«Gargantúa y Pantagruel» is the cycle of five satirical novels by François Rabelais, published in Spanish.
The work follows the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, in a world of exaggeration, absurd wars and great banquets. Between the burlesque and the erudite, it satirizes religion, education, politics and customs of the 16th century, with a humor that mixes social criticism and the scatological.
The volume brings together the complete series «Gargantúa y Pantagruel»: its five novels. The original French title, «La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel», began to be published in 1532.
For readers interested in European classics, French Renaissance literature and humorous 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.
