Gargantua and Pantagruel
By Francois Rabelais; M. A. Screech (Translator)
(Penguin Classics, Paperback, 9780140445503, 1104pp.)
Publication Date: January 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (May 2008), Hardcover (May 2002), Paperback (May 2002), Hardcover (May 2002), Paperback (June 2001), Hardcover (January 0001), Hardcover (May 10, 1994), Paperback (September 1991)
Categories: Classics, Humorous, Literary
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A masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy
Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua's bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.
François Rabelais (c.1483-c.1553) was a Franciscan monk turned Benedictine at the center of the sixteenth-century humanist movement.
M. A. Screech is a fellow of All Souls College and an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, as well as a fellow of the British Academy. He is a world-renowned Renaissance scholar who has published widely on Rabelais, Montaigne, and Erasmus.
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