Gargantua and Pantagruel

In world literature, Roman Francois Rabelais, the greatest writer of the French Renaissance, humanist of Europe, occupies one of the most honorable places, and in French literature his influence is completely exclusively.
The famous epic about the family of giants created in the Renaissance is a kind of unique work of world literature. Dedicated to the education of a person with a capital letter and glorifying scholarship, culture and humanism, he simultaneously abounds with frank, rude humor, so understandable to people of that time.
Roman F. Rabelais is retold for children by N. Zabolotsky, who seeks not only to convey to young readers the great ideas of the humanist Rabelais, but to maintain the original style of the rabla mocker