by François Rabelais · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476003640
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«Pantagruel» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish), edited by Juan Barja de Quiroga.
The work narrates the adventures of the giant Pantagruel: his prodigious birth, his journey to Paris and his exploits in Utopia, accompanied by the cunning Panurge. With exuberant humor, Rabelais satirizes the institutions of his time and combines classical erudition and popular tradition in a festive celebration of life.
Edition by Juan Barja de Quiroga in the Akal Bolsillo collection (no. 186). The work belongs to the Gargantua and Pantagruel series and includes 27 illustrations.
For readers of classical literature and satire seeking an ingenious, erudite and light-hearted Renaissance work.
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.
