"Gargantua and Pantagruel" Author: [France] Rabelais Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House Original title: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel Translator: Bao Wenwei

"Gargantua and Pantagruel" narrates the birth, education and great achievements of Gargantua and Pantagruel to illustrate the various ideas of humanism; it uses the story of Pantagruel and his partners such as Baruch traveling around the world to find the magic bottle to study marriage problems as a clue to show the broad social picture of the Middle Ages, exposes and criticizes various social ills, and demonstrates the author's unparalleled satirical art and unique and charming language style.

About the Author

Rabelais (1494-1553)

A French humanist writer during the Renaissance. Born in Chinon, Tours, France, into a lawyer family, he was educated in a monastery in his early years and later became a doctor. In the 1530s, he began to turn to literary creation. He was proficient in medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, philosophy, theology, music, botany, architecture, law, education and other subjects, as well as Greek, Latin, Hebrew and other languages. He can be called a "humanist giant". Rabelais' main work is the novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel".