Gargantua and Pantagruel

About “Gargantua and Pantagruel”

First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel. The series of exaggerated fables uses ribald humor to address timeless issues of education, politics, and philosophy, while parodying classic and contemporary authors to satirize human folly and cultural institutions.