A review by jake_
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted slow-paced

3.75

This gargantuan epic was always going to be a bit of a slog, but it was laugh-out-loud funny at times, and learned and allusive throughout. There's no doubt that it is a masterpiece of satire, bridging the gap between the Graeco-Roman tradition and more recent modernist, experimental and maximalist texts.