Gargantua and Pantagruel in Bloomington, MN

A masterly new translation of Rabelais’s robust scatalogical comedy
Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor.
Gargantua
depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight.
Pantagruel
portrays Gargantua’s bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.