"Gargantua" est un livre écrit par François Rabelais au XVIe siècle et publié en 1534. Il s'agit du premier volet de la célèbre série "Gargantua et Pantagruel". L'histoire est centrée sur les aventures du géant Gargantua, depuis sa naissance jusqu'à sa vie à l'université. Ce roman est un mélange de satire sociale et de comédie, avec un style d'écriture caractéristique de Rabelais qui inclut des calembours et des jeux de mots. Le livre...

"The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein." --

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humor, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalsque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in...