Gargantua and Pantagruel
Illustration by Gustave Doré, 1873
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Pantagruel (c. 1532)
Gargantua (1534) The Third Book of Pantagruel (1546) The Fourth Book of Pantagruel (1552) The Fifth Book of Pantagruel (c. 1564) |
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| Author | François Rabelais ("Alcofribas Nasier") |
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| 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 (/ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuːə/; French: [ɡaʁ.ɡɑ̃.ty.a]) and his son Pantagruel (/pænˈtæɡruːˌɛl, -əl, ˌpæntəˈɡruːəl/; 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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