Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I
Chapter 1 of 59 Poems and Prologue
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- Running time
- 7 h 42 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Chris Caron, Daniel Watkins, Examinfo, Ezwa and 11 others
- Translated by
- Peter Antony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart
Chapters
About this recording
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters.(Summary by Wikipedia)