The introduction explores his individuality while comparing him to Shakespeare, and presents each book to open up the new horizons of Renaissance Europe. This edition also includes a chronology and notes."--BOOK JACKET.

The book was judged obscene by the censors at the Sorbonne, but was immensely popular with the public thanks to its biting satire and crude, extravagant humour. Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer and humanist.

The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life.But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just ...

This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven.

The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce.

"Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5" by François Rabelais is the final volume in Rabelais' satirical series.

In this volume, the narrative continues the adventures of Pantagruel, the giant son of Gargantua, as he embarks on various quests and encounters.

And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and ...