Gargantua and Pantagruel

The book, which was admired by such different writers as Hugo and Balzac, Prosper Merim and Anatole France. Her echoes are heard in the work of Rasin, Lafontaine and Moliere. She was illustrated by Gustav Dorea, Honore Domier was inspired by her ...
The roots of the phantasmagoric story of the giant king Gargantua and his son Pantagruel are in medieval French folklore. From there, Rabelais also borrowed many features of the style of his novel: demonstrative and jokingly, indifferent exaggerations, fairy-tale plot turns, riot of folk imagination and frankly rude, equally truly folk humor. Satires, from which the modern church, and the judicial system, and pedagogy, and much more, and the humanistic moral message, singing freedom and independence of the human person, love of life and simple joys of being