# Gargantua

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- Book: [Gargantua](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-stallabrass/gargantua) ([Gargantua.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-stallabrass/gargantua.md))
- Authors: [Julian Stallabrass](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-stallabrass)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-5984-036-8
- Pages: 280
- Published: 1996-06-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Rabelais’s tale the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are incomparable. In the old giant’s size, ubiquity,...