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As a companion volume to Pantagruel this new edition of Gargantuacontinues Rabelais acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants.Gargantua introduces Pantagruels fatheranother wondrous giant. As he tellsGargantuas life story from his birth and education to his later life Rabelaisuses the events of the giants life to parody medieval and classical learningmock traditional ecclesiastical authority and proffer his own thoughts onhumanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor obsession with food andscatological wit of Pantagruel Gargantua is a further striking burlesqueon Rabelais contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude. «
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