{"title":"Books by Francois Rabelais","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780140445503","title":"Gargantua and Pantagruel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA masterly new translation of Rabelais’s robust scatalogical comedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eParodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. \u003ci\u003eGargantua\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. \u003ci\u003ePantagruel\u003c\/i\u003e portrays Gargantua’s bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224359219573,"sku":"9780140445503","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140445503_fb8d5ee4-176d-42e7-967f-62589bb61d4c.jpg?v=1786011806"},{"product_id":"9781847497406","title":"Pantagruel and Gargantua","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as François Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308310081909,"sku":"9781847497406","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847497406_c93e555d-b02d-48c5-b3eb-b50e5c9b0b41.jpg?v=1786029351"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-francois-rabelais.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}