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GARGANTUA

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FOREWARD BY PAUL BAILEY
By FRANCOIS RABELAIS
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Gargantua introduces Pantagruel's father - another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua's life story - from his birth and education to his later life - Rabelais uses the events of the giant's life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humour, obsession with food, and scatological wit of Pantagruel, Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais' contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.

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About the Author

Francois Rabelais began his adult life in a Franciscan monastery. However he soon rejected the monastic life, favouring instead a career in medicine. He lectured in medicine around Europe, and also turned his hand to writing. His stories, based on local folk lore, of an imaginary world of giants were instantly condemned as obscene and banned by the authorities. Today they are regarded as some of the key works of French Renaissance literature. Paul Bailey has so far written eight novels, a memoir, a biography and edited several anthologies. He is also a frequent contributor to Radio and TV and works as a critic and reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and other newspapers.

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