Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1 (Illustrated Edition) (D...
Rabelais, Francois / Dore, Gustave / Motteux, Peter Anthony François Rabelais (1494-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, dirty jokes and bawdy songs. As a doctor, he used his spare time to write and publish humourous pamphlets which were critical of established authority and stressed his own perception of individual liberty. His revolutionary works, although satirical, revealed an astute observer of ...