
Gargantua and Pantagruel
1564 · 1104 pages
Two giants eat, drink, and study their way across Renaissance France while a monk and a scoundrel debate marriage. Rabelais packed in so much filth and learning that his name became an adjective.
★ 7.4

Two giants eat, drink, and study their way across Renaissance France while a monk and a scoundrel debate marriage. Rabelais packed in so much filth and learning that his name became an adjective.

Bruegel gives the holy figures plain faces and surrounds them with gawkers and whisperers, which makes reverence hard to come by.