Gargantua

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All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021

The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017

Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

Yes, I am referring to the 16-century French writer and occasional monk who penned that delightful tale of the misadventures of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2011

We condense and defecate for this purpose the thirty-eighth chapter of the first book, which is staggeringly entitled, “How Gargantua did eat up Six Pilgrims in a Sallad:”

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver