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Original Title:	Gargantua: La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel
ISBN:	1843910578 (ISBN13: 9781843910572)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Gargantua and Pantagruel #2
Characters:	Gargantua

Gargantua (Gargantua and Pantagruel #2)

François Rabelais

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 2797 Users | 92 Reviews

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Title	:	Gargantua (Gargantua and Pantagruel #2)
Author	:	François Rabelais
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2003 by Hesperus Press (first published 1534)
Categories	:	Classics. Cultural. France. Fiction. Academic. School. European Literature. French Literature

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As a companion volume to Pantagruel, this new edition of Gargantua continues Rabelais’ acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. Gargantua introduces Pantagruel’s father—another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua’s life story from his birth and education to his later life, Rabelais uses the events of the giant’s life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor, obsession with food, and scatological wit of Pantagruel, Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais’ contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.

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Ratings: 3.48 From 2797 Users | 92 Reviews

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Puerile, scatological, offensive, disorganized, graceless filth. No redeeming qualities, given our choices in the 21stC. Maybe it was interesting to people back then (1532), before Cervantes, Shakespeare, Marivaux, Prevost, Goethe, etc. I abandoned the reading after less than 1/4 of book. Strongly dis-recommended. [need negative stars for rating]Read in original French.

(Review of the Burton Raffel translation)The book is at it's strongest with the ridiculous imagery and farcical situations (the impetus for the war between Grandgousier & Pichrocole, Gargantua's horse pissing a flood downing thousands of soldiers, a seemingly indestructible not-so-monkish, Brother John, etc.) The vignettes such as Gargantua eating pilgrims in a salad, or using a giant tree as his staff are very good.Unfortunately, the book is repetitious to an ingratiating extent. There is

Gargantua was printed and edited first in 1534-1535, (printing had just been invented,)Pantagruel, son of Gargantua, was published first in 1532. By François Rabelais, 1495 ?- 1553 (America had just been discovered,)To make any sense of the works of Rabelais, we must take into account the historical environment of his time:Religious inquisitions could and still did lead to accusation of heresy, the convicted would be burned alive in public.Braving these dangers, Rabelais whirled up a literary

pointless, boring... I wasn't expecting much better of this book anyway.. it is such a shame that something like th pointless, boring... I wasn't expecting much better of this book anyway.. it is such a shame that something like that is considered as a masterpiece of French literature...

Likely the best 16th century French novel I've ever read. Naughty and bawdy and laugh out loud filthy.

blah blah blah blah blah blah... it took me 4month to read this book (i read others book at the same time). i read it for school and it has really pissed me off. most of the book is total crap even though i liked the end bcause it was the end and because there the theleme's abbey (what i was waiting all along the book). well if you're not obliged to read it, then dont. you will miss nothing.

This was one crazy story! It's very reminiscent of Voltaire's Candide but with a great many lewd jokes and a lot of dirty humour.It's bawdy, yes, but it also offers some philosophical insights into society. It's hard to believe that this book was written over 5 centuries ago.