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Gargantua and Pantagruel

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This edition presents the full, uncensored text of the famous satirical novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel." Its author, François Rabelais, is seen as a contemporary of our time, living by the will of fate in 16th-century France. He is an inwardly free man, extremely erudite, and possessed of a sparkling sense of humor, who long ago cast off the shackles of the Middle Ages. Rabelais's imagination runs wild. Hiding behind farce, buffoonery, and jokes, sometimes quite ribald, he expresses thoughts on enlightened monarchy, the principles of pedagogy, free human community, and the pursuit of knowledge.

It is no coincidence that his epic novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel," which he wrote over twenty years and published in installments, has become a unique encyclopedia of the social, political, and cultural life of 16th-century France. Moreover, many consider Rabelais the founder of the modern French language. He uses colloquial expressions, relishes them, absorbs everyday language like a sponge, plays with word creation, makes puns, and uses French dialects, slang, and foreign idioms.

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