Gargantua and Pantagruel, EPUB eBook

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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by Francois Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.

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.

Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number of new and difficult words into the French language".

The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the College de la Sorbonne, and, within a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it.

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