by François Rabelais · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475302638
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«Gargantúa y Pantagruel» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Orbis in hardcover in 1983 (334 pages, in Spanish).
A 16th-century classic, it brings together the absurd adventures of the giants Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Rabelais combines erudition, coarse humor and fantasy to satirize education, religion and the customs of his time, with banquets, absurd wars and philosophical reflections. It is a celebration of the freedom of the body and of language.
It collects the five parts of the Gargantúa y Pantagruel series, whose original publication began in 1532.
Recommended for readers of classical literature and satire, with an interest in the French Renaissance and irreverent humor.
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.
