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Gargantua

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel
Gustave Doré-L'Enfance de Gargantua.jpg
Illustration by Gustave Doré, 1873
Pantagruel (c. 1532)
Gargantua (1534)
The Third Book of Pantagruel (1546)
The Fourth Book of Pantagruel (1552)
The Fifth Book of Pantagruel (c. 1564)
Author François Rabelais ("Alcofribas Nasier")
Original title La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
Translator Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux
Illustrator Gustave Doré (1854 edition)
Country France
Language Classical French
Genre Satire
Published c. 1532 – c. 1564
Published in English 1693–94
No. of books 5

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua (/ɡɑːrˈɡænə/; French: [ɡaʁ.ɡɑ̃.ty.a]) and his son Pantagruel (/pænˈtæɡrˌɛl, -əl, ˌpæntəˈɡrəl/; French: [pɑ̃.ta.ɡʁy.ɛl]). The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters).


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