A masterly new translation of Rabelais s robust scatalogical comedy Parodyingeveryone from classic authors to his own contemporaries the dazzling andexuberant s... » 

A masterly new translation of Rabelais s robust scatalogical comedy Parodyingeveryone from classic authors to his own contemporaries the dazzling andexuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and oftenobscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a culturedChristian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua s bookish son who becomes aRenaissance Socrates divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic selflovingcompanion Panurge. «